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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft <andyw@uk.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] checkpatch.pl: revert wrong --file message
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:16:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802181116.42824.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802161026550.7583@apollo.tec.linutronix.de>


> People, who do cleanups - I'm not talking about running lindent here -
> read through the code while they fix it up.

Please feel free to repeat my little experiment: give someone who sends
you a lot of checkpatch.pl only patches a simple task that actually
requires a little actual code change and at least a little localized 
understanding of code. See how well they do.

In my case it was the "turn ->ioctl into ->unlocked_ioctl" task,
which was simple enough.

I found that there were a lot of useful unlocked_ioctl patches
in the end, but they all only came from people who hadn't submitted
any checkpatch.pl only patches before.

-Andi




      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-18 10:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-15 16:52 [patch] checkpatch.pl: revert wrong --file message Ingo Molnar
2008-02-15 17:15 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-16 10:18   ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-02-16 10:27     ` Pekka Enberg
2008-02-16 11:04       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-02-16 22:56       ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-02-16 23:47         ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-02-18 10:07       ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-18 10:16     ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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