From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Cc: "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: checkpatch.pl false positive: FSF mailing address
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 11:25:55 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1457637955.3433.17.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN8TOE-dOUsuPfm8cp6c3k94XRzyyCb1g7sAaPeOdaxS9zG-uA@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 2016-03-10 at 11:15 -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
Hey again Brian.
> > Yeah, it's amusing. It's also likely not something worth
> > bothering with though as the likelihood of fixing it is low
> > and eventually the FSF warning will be minimized or removed
> > as no longer necessary.
> An easy improvement: don't use "ignore case" for the regex.
Maybe, but:
drivers/pcmcia/bfin_cf_pcmcia.c: * if not, write to the free software foundation,
Of course there's only one of those too.
Mostly, it's a "I just don't care very much" warning.
If you care enough to submit a patch removing the "/i"
from the regex, please do and cc Andrew Morton too.
> > checkpatch is stupid, false positives will always exist.
I'd almost rather have people understand this.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-10 19:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-10 19:00 checkpatch.pl false positive: FSF mailing address Brian Norris
2016-03-10 19:08 ` Joe Perches
2016-03-10 19:15 ` Brian Norris
2016-03-10 19:25 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2016-03-10 19:28 ` Brian Norris
2016-03-10 19:34 ` Joe Perches
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