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Message-ID: <58fa2a308db8a27df72f94a880df3224bffab86d.camel@perches.com>
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 09:36:51 -0700
From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>,
SeongJae Park <sjpark@...zon.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
apw@...onical.com, colin.king@...onical.com, sj38.park@...il.com,
jslaby@...e.cz, pavel@....cz
Subject: Re: checkpatch: support deprecated terms checking
On Sat, 2020-07-25 at 15:02 +0200, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I see that this patch went into next and is already inciting people to
> do wrong things [1]. Can you please fix it to require '--subjective'
> switch or otherwise mark it clearly as suggestion-only?
>
> The coding-style as in Linus' master says about *NEW* uses of the words
> listed (those introductions I expect to be actually rare) and not about
> existing use in the code or industry. Making a noise about all uses
> found surely will generate a lot more irrelevant patches.
>
> [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-tegra/msg51849.html
I was never a big fan of this change.
Andrew, can you revert this please?
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