linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Remove --file option

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Message-ID: <1405695433.14358.40.camel@joe-AO725>
Date:	Fri, 18 Jul 2014 07:57:13 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
Cc:	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	apw@...onical.com, tytso@....edu, dwalter@...gle.com,
	neilb@...e.de, hch@...radead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Remove --file option

On Fri, 2014-07-18 at 16:49 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 07:35:26AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Using the one-liner above also makes it harder to
> > automate checkpatch neatening and avoid using Lindent:
> 
> automated checkpatch?? More idiocy... we want less, in case you've
> forgotten.

"we" is a subset of "all of us".

> <snip more pointless justification attempts>

Those are not at all pointless if you intend to fix
any issue found by the tool.

I think your viewpoint is a bit tainted as you're the
same guy that wrote "fuck readability".

https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/19/116

> It is about time people understood that and dropped the senseless frenzy
> of creating patches with less time spent on thinking about them than
> preparing them.

I suggest you try writing some documentation
patches instead of acrid emails.

cheers, Joe

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