From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: simplify the output of --list-types
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2017 08:48:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1504540116.28899.1.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170904100824.4cc2410a@endymion>
On Mon, 2017-09-04 at 10:08 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Drop the header and numbering of types. This format was confusing as
> it suggested one could pass the number instead of the type name,
> however it did not actually work, and numbering wasn't stable anyway.
<shrug> If it makes you happy.
I suppose a bigger improvement would be to detail
the purpose of each type.
Most are fairly obvious, some like MEMSET are
a bit obscure.
Another defect:
The list also includes types that are commented out.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-04 15:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-04 8:08 [PATCH] checkpatch: simplify the output of --list-types Jean Delvare
2017-09-04 15:48 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2017-09-05 9:37 ` Jean Delvare
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