linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ipv4: Fixed checkpatch warnings and errors

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Message-Id: <20120508.130139.515602646900287732.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 08 May 2012 13:01:39 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	greearb@...delatech.com
Cc:	cristian.chilipirea@...il.com, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru,
	jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kaber@...sh.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	daniel.baluta@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv4: Fixed checkpatch warnings and errors

From: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 08:13:46 -0700

> On 05/08/2012 03:58 AM, Cristian Chilipirea wrote:
>> Fixed warnings and errors in af_inet.c.
> 
>>   #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
>> -static int inet_compat_ioctl(struct socket *sock, unsigned int cmd,
>> -unsigned long arg)
>> +static int inet_compat_ioctl(struct socket *sock, unsigned int cmd,
>> +		unsigned long arg)
>>   {
> 
> That is so much worse than what was there before.
> 
> Lets stop useless checkpatch crap on existing code
> unless it's really ugly.

Agreed, this patch is terrible.
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