From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rpjday@crashcourse.ca (Robert P. J. Day) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 07:53:43 -0400 (EDT) Subject: A quick guide to why stand-alone checkpatch patches suck... In-Reply-To: <541972B5.3060403@gmail.com> References: <140649.1410913551@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <153669.1410925338@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <20140917045628.GB19159@kroah.com> <541972B5.3060403@gmail.com> Message-ID: To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org what did i say? what did i just say? i wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, nick wrote: > On 14-09-17 07:20 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > and, as we've all seen, nick's other flaw is that, quite simply, > > he's selfish and greedy. his entire obsession is with the output > > of checkpatch, which means he wants to grab all the trivial > > cleanup (the low-hanging fruit, as it were) for himself, and not > > leave any for others. rather than take the time to understand the ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > code, nick wants checkpatch to do all the work for him. in the > > end, nick doesn't want to do any work or understand how the kernel > > actually works -- he just wants patches, and he wants them as > > quickly and cheaply as possible. to which nick responds (unbelievably, and confirming what i had just written): > That's not what I wanted I was trying to improve my rep after > getting banned from vger.org and now it seems I can't even get a > patch right. In addition I was trying to do check patch because it > was easier for me due to not understanding some parts of the code. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ i rarely have my speculation confirmed so rapidly and completely. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================