From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>,
Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>, Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Ceph Development <ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
Alex Elder <elder@kernel.org>, Sage Weil <sage@redhat.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "CodingStyle: Clarify and complete chapter 7" in docs-next (was Re: [PATCH 03/47] block-rbd: Adj
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 02:46:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1474339566.1954.25.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160920001159.GM2356@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Tue, 2016-09-20 at 01:11 +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> IMO what we need is to go through all rules in CodingStyle and if for
> some rule there is no overwhelming majority in the core kernel, well,
> the list has grown way too large and could use massive trimming.
I'm in complete agreement.
I also think that checkpatch's ERROR/WARNING/CHECK message naming is
far too severe and injunctive and could use a renaming to something
more silly, bug related and less commanding like FLEAS/GNATS/NITS.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-20 2:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-19 11:53 "CodingStyle: Clarify and complete chapter 7" in docs-next (was Re: [PATCH 03/47] block-rbd: Adjust Ilya Dryomov
2016-09-20 0:11 ` "CodingStyle: Clarify and complete chapter 7" in docs-next (was Re: [PATCH 03/47] block-rbd: Adj Al Viro
2016-09-20 2:46 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2016-09-20 5:53 ` Julia Lawall
2016-09-20 6:32 ` Joe Perches
2016-09-20 6:46 ` Julia Lawall
2016-09-22 9:24 ` "CodingStyle: Clarify and complete chapter 7" in docs-next Jean Delvare
2016-09-22 10:42 ` Joe Perches
2016-09-22 11:57 ` Jean Delvare
2016-09-22 13:11 ` Al Viro
2016-09-22 14:58 ` Jean Delvare
2016-09-22 15:05 ` Julia Lawall
2016-09-22 17:50 ` Joe Perches
2016-09-22 17:49 ` Joe Perches
2016-09-22 19:47 ` Jean Delvare
2016-09-22 10:43 ` Jani Nikula
2016-09-22 12:46 ` Jean Delvare
2016-09-22 13:06 ` Jani Nikula
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