linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 1/8] counter: Introduce the Generic Counter interface

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Message-ID: <1521997449.24655.22.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Sun, 25 Mar 2018 10:04:09 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
Cc:     William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@...il.com>, knaack.h@....de,
        lars@...afoo.de, pmeerw@...erw.net, benjamin.gaignard@...com,
        linux-iio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/8] counter: Introduce the Generic Counter interface

On Sun, 2018-03-25 at 17:56 +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Mar 2018 00:46:10 -0700
> Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2018-03-24 at 17:33 +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> > > checkpatch.pl --strict (but take into account some of the warnings will
> > > be silly so don't fix them all).  
> > 
> > What checkpatch output is silly?
> 
> Sorry - bad word choice.

No worries.  Just checking.

> It guides you to where you should look very
> well, but sometimes the patch author should consider the warning and
> decide to ignore it.  

Very true.  It's a brainless tool and all who use
it should seriously consider ignoring its output
whenever they deem appropriate.