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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 08:45:10 +0000
Subject: Re: Clarification for general change acceptance
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To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>, Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>, Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>, Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, devel@linuxdriverproject.org

> When you make a patch, you are not obliged to eliminate all of the other
> checkpatch warnings on the file.

Your view is generally fine.


> I don't know where you got this idea from.

I got used as a professional software developer to some approaches for
reducing development warnings to some degree. So I picked further update
suggestions up also from this source code analysis tool.

Regards,
Markus