linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scsi/arm: Clean up coding style violations

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Message-ID: <yq1tsz4ig6m.fsf@ca-mkp.ca.oracle.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2025 12:33:00 -0500
From: "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>
To: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Cc: Darshan Rathod <darshanrathod475@...il.com>,
        James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com, martin.petersen@...cle.com,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi/arm: Clean up coding style violations


Russell,

> Up to the SCSI maintainers, but this code pre-dates many of the coding
> style updates, and I believe there is a general policy not to "fix"
> old code for such things. It creates noise and additional churn.

Correct. checkpatch is for validating *new* code.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen