linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Revert "scripts/coccinelle: Find PTR

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Message-ID: <aQTDY6m6xuDpNSAH@hovoldconsulting.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:10:43 +0100
From: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
To: Gal Pressman <gal@...dia.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@...ia.fr>,
	Nicolas Palix <nicolas.palix@...g.fr>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Alexei Lazar <alazar@...dia.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, cocci@...ia.fr,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "scripts/coccinelle: Find PTR_ERR() to %pe
 candidates"

On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 04:36:46PM +0200, Gal Pressman wrote:
> On 30/10/2025 16:06, Johan Hovold wrote:

> > It still generates noise and extra work for already overworked
> > maintainers that would need to explain over and over again why they are
> > rejecting patches that appears to fix "warnings". Some will just take
> > the patches, which leads to inconsistencies (as only a handful of
> > printks will be converted) and a push for a style which again only some
> > people prefer.
> 
> There's the subsystem maintainer "rules" documentation in
> Documentation/process/maintainer-*.rst which can document these kinds of
> stuff.

There's already too many rules in there and I guess not many people
actually read it so that doesn't really scale.

Johan