Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: Add SunGEM device emulation as found on Apple UniNorth

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> writes:

> On Wed, 2016-09-21 at 11:16 +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
>>
>> > >
>> > > total: 428 errors, 73 warnings, 1950 lines checked
>> > >
>> > > Your patch has style problems, please review.If any of these
>> > > errors
>> > > are false positives report them to the maintainer, see
>> > > CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.
>>
>> It seems very unlikely all of the reported errors here can be
>> justified
>> along the lines of internal consistency, especially for adding a new
>> file.
>
> It's actually an old thread ;-) I've already fixed some of these, just
> haven't had a chance to finish and submit a new version.

I'll blame my mailer for bringing old-threads up when new posts are made ;-)

>
> However *most* of the above are intentional and I won't fix, it's about
> the .h file describing the registers that is essentially lifted from
> Linux and that I want to keep largely identical for obvious reasons
> (thus including the use of tabs).

Unless it is highly likely you'll be re-importing changes it is a bit of
a thin justification. For things like linux-headers we obviously already
have a mechanism that allows for raw import of violating headers. In
this case you are just grabbing a bunch of magic numbers that haven't
been updated for at least 11 years (if not more, the numbers pre-date
Linux's git history). But hey I'll happily defer to the maintainers on
this one!

--
Alex Bennée