linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi: megaraid: cleanup formatting of megaraid

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Date:   Fri, 28 Jan 2022 09:59:54 -0800
From:   Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>
To:     Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>, kashyap.desai@...adcom.com,
        sumit.saxena@...adcom.com, shivasharan.srikanteshwara@...adcom.com,
        jejb@...ux.ibm.com, martin.petersen@...cle.com, nathan@...nel.org,
        ndesaulniers@...gle.com
Cc:     megaraidlinux.pdl@...adcom.com, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, llvm@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: megaraid: cleanup formatting of megaraid


On 1/28/22 9:42 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 1/27/22 07:19, trix@...hat.com wrote:
>> From: Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>
>>
>> checkpatch reports several hundred formatting errors.
>> Run these files through clang-format and knock off
>> some of them.
>
> Isn't this the kind of patches that carries more risk than value? 
> Additionally, this patch conflicts with a patch series that I plan to 
> post soon.
>
> Thanks,

I have dropped this patch.

Long term, it would be good have a reliable way to automatically fix 
either new files or really broken old files.

So you could do two patches, first would be fixing formatting problems 
and second would new stuff.

As it is your new patch will have to both for now.

Tom

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>
> Bart.
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