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

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Message-ID: <46441b86-1d19-5eb4-0013-db1c63a9b0a5@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri, 28 Jan 2022 11:37:16 -0800
From:   Tom Rix <trix@...hat.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        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 11:11 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2022-01-28 at 09:59 -0800, Tom Rix wrote:
>> 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?
> Risk for whitespace style reformatting patches is quite low.
>
> Nominally, clang-format changes should not produce a different
> compiled object file unless __LINE__/__DATE__/__TIME__ style
> changes occur.
>
> If it does, the clang-format tool is broken.
>
>>> Additionally, this patch conflicts with a patch series that I plan to
>>> post soon.
> []
>> Long term, it would be good have a reliable way to automatically fix
>> either new files or really broken old files.
> That's really a maintainer preference no?
>
> Especially so for any automation.

In practice everything is up to the maintainer.

If some maintainer wants fix their formatting then clang-format should 
just work

It isn't likely they will have time to hand fix every file.

Tom

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