From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
ksummit-2013-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [PATCH] checkpatch: Add comment about updating Documentation/CodingStyle
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 15:08:05 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130902220800.GA934@leaf> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13834.1378155023@warthog.procyon.org.uk>
On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 09:50:23PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> wrote:
>
> > > There are many checkpatch rules (like semicolons) that
> > > are not in CodingStyle.
> >
> > It's a rule of thumb, not a mandate. In *general*, checkpatch.pl should
> > not be enforcing style rules that aren't documented in CodingStyle.
>
> Except that it becomes a mandate when someone runs it automatically against
> every one of your patches and then sends you an email for each patch it finds
> a checkpatch niggle against...
I think we're talking about two different things. I wasn't talking
about checkpatch.pl itself; I was talking about the idea that every
style rule in checkpatch.pl should corresponding documentation in
CodingStyle. That's what I was calling a rule of thumb rather than a
mandate.
- Josh triplett
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-02 22:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2013-09-02 16:10 ` Making changes to the Coding Style Joe Perches
2013-09-02 18:15 ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] " Josh Triplett
2013-09-02 18:19 ` [PATCH] checkpatch: Add comment about updating Documentation/CodingStyle Josh Triplett
2013-09-02 18:39 ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2013-09-02 18:59 ` Joe Perches
2013-09-02 19:48 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2013-09-02 19:50 ` Josh Triplett
2013-09-02 20:04 ` Guenter Roeck
2013-09-02 22:14 ` [PATCH] checkpatch: Report missing spaces around trigraphs with --strict Joe Perches
2013-09-02 23:15 ` Josh Triplett
2013-09-02 23:54 ` Joe Perches
2013-09-03 0:32 ` Josh Triplett
2013-09-02 20:50 ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [PATCH] checkpatch: Add comment about updating Documentation/CodingStyle David Howells
2013-09-02 21:11 ` Joe Perches
2013-09-03 0:26 ` Shilong Wang
2013-09-03 0:36 ` Josh Triplett
2013-09-03 1:21 ` Fengguang Wu
2013-09-03 0:39 ` Fengguang Wu
2013-09-03 0:47 ` Joe Perches
2013-09-03 1:35 ` Fengguang Wu
2013-09-03 1:34 ` Josh Triplett
2013-09-03 1:52 ` Joe Perches
2013-09-03 2:12 ` Josh Triplett
2013-09-03 2:21 ` Joe Perches
2013-09-03 2:46 ` Fengguang Wu
2013-09-03 3:16 ` Josh Triplett
2013-09-03 3:22 ` Fengguang Wu
2013-09-03 18:09 ` Bjorn Helgaas
2013-09-04 0:49 ` Fengguang Wu
2013-09-02 22:08 ` Josh Triplett [this message]
2013-09-02 19:34 ` Josh Triplett
2013-09-02 19:40 ` [PATCH] checkpatch: Add warning about submitting patches using --file Joe Perches
2013-09-02 19:54 ` [Ksummit-2013-discuss] " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2013-09-02 19:56 ` Josh Triplett
2013-09-02 20:37 ` Dan Carpenter
2013-09-02 21:51 ` Joe Perches
2013-09-17 21:33 ` Andrew Morton
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