linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] MAINTAINERS tag for cleanup robot

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Date:   Sun, 22 Nov 2020 06:46:46 -0800
From:   Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] MAINTAINERS tag for cleanup robot


On 11/21/20 7:23 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 08:50:58AM -0800, trix@...hat.com wrote:
>> The fixer review is
>> https://reviews.llvm.org/D91789
>>
>> A run over allyesconfig for x86_64 finds 62 issues, 5 are false positives.
>> The false positives are caused by macros passed to other macros and by
>> some macro expansions that did not have an extra semicolon.
>>
>> This cleans up about 1,000 of the current 10,000 -Wextra-semi-stmt
>> warnings in linux-next.
> Are any of them not false-positives?  It's all very well to enable
> stricter warnings, but if they don't fix any bugs, they're just churn.
>
While enabling additional warnings may be a side effect of this effort

the primary goal is to set up a cleaning robot. After that a refactoring robot.

Tom