linux-kernel - Re: Alpha Checkpatch Errors

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Date:	Fri, 18 Jul 2014 00:17:50 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Nick Krause <xerofoify@...il.com>
cc:	Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>, ink@...assic.park.msu.ru,
	Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
Subject: Re: Alpha Checkpatch Errors

On Thu, 17 Jul 2014, Nick Krause wrote:

> Hey Richard and other Maintainers,
> I am wondering about cleaning up the cleanpatch errors for alpha,  as
> I  am hitting a lot of in the arch/alpha directory.
> It would be nice if I got a list of files that still need coding style
> cleanup as this may be of nice to cleanup :).

Nick, can you please stop that nonsense? checkpatch.pl is a tool to
check PATCHES and not to apply random nonsense on existing code. See
also:

  https://lwn.net/Articles/605597/

Joe, can you please finally remove the -f option from checkpatch.pl ?

Thanks,

	tglx
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