netdev - Re: [PATCH 5/6] e1000 driver remove checkpatch errors, warnings and checks.

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Message-ID: <1444785486.9184.40.camel@perches.com>
Date:	Tue, 13 Oct 2015 18:18:06 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@...il.com>
Cc:	Janusz Wolak <januszwolak@...kados.com.pl>,
	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, jesse.brandeburg@...el.com,
	shannon.nelson@...el.com, carolyn.wyborny@...el.com,
	donald.c.skidmore@...el.com, matthew.vick@...el.com,
	john.ronciak@...el.com, mitch.a.williams@...el.com,
	intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Janusz Wolak <januszvdm@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/6] e1000 driver remove checkpatch errors, warnings and
 checks.

On Tue, 2015-10-13 at 15:23 -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> Please don't just blindly 
> follow checkpatch as it can give out erroneous information.
> 
> Looking over most of this patch series it seems like it is taking 
> readability in the wrong direction and reducing the ability to maintain 
> the driver since this code has been "maintenance only" for some time 
> now.  If somebody comes up with a legitimate fix for an issue at some 
> point in the future they will need to work around these patches in order 
> to back-port it into a stable release and that just hurts maintainability.
> 
> I'd say this whole series should be rejected on the grounds that this 
> driver is mostly stable and should only really be modified for bug fixes 
> at this point.  If we really need to go through and do a checkpatch 
> sweep we should probably just focus on serious errors only instead of 
> going astray and chasing down things that are false hits or minor issues 
> that are mostly a matter of preference.

Excellent advice.

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