linux-kernel - Re: Clarification for general change acceptance

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Message-ID: <435021fd-ec99-eb58-c69a-a48cadd1f610@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Fri, 12 May 2017 10:45:10 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>,
        Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, devel@...uxdriverproject.org
Subject: Re: Clarification for general change acceptance

> When you make a patch, you are not obliged to eliminate all of the other
> checkpatch warnings on the file.

Your view is generally fine.


> I don't know where you got this idea from.

I got used as a professional software developer to some approaches for
reducing development warnings to some degree. So I picked further update
suggestions up also from this source code analysis tool.

Regards,
Markus