From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sricharan R Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 08/19] irqchip: crossbar: fix checkpatch warning Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 12:00:31 +0530 Message-ID: <539A9A87.6020004@ti.com> References: <1402574007-13987-1-git-send-email-r.sricharan@ti.com> <1402574007-13987-9-git-send-email-r.sricharan@ti.com> <20140612131042.GU8664@titan.lakedaemon.net> <5399AC9C.4080602@ti.com> <1402582711.9947.17.camel@joe-AO725> <20140612153226.GE8664@titan.lakedaemon.net> <1402589159.12385.4.camel@joe-AO725> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1402589159.12385.4.camel@joe-AO725> Sender: devicetree-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Joe Perches Cc: Jason Cooper , linux-omap-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-arm-kernel-IAPFreCvJWM7uuMidbF8XUB+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org, devicetree-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, tony-4v6yS6AI5VpBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org, santosh.shilimkar-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org, nm-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org, rnayak-l0cyMroinI0@public.gmane.org, linux-lFZ/pmaqli7XmaaqVzeoHQ@public.gmane.org, tglx-hfZtesqFncYOwBW4kG4KsQ@public.gmane.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org Hi Jason, On Thursday 12 June 2014 09:35 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 11:32 -0400, Jason Cooper wrote: > > Hi Jason. > >>> But bugfix backports haven't been much of an issue in >>> other subsystems with fairly active whitespace/style >>> changes. >> >> Most of the mvebu fixes we've had that failed to apply were generally >> due to a large whitespace change (dts node shuffling, admittedly not >> checkpatch-related). > > So not due to this. > >> I've also frequently been stymied by code cleanups >> when using git blame to find the commit introducing a regression. > > git blame -w can frequently help there. > >> So, my general rule is: If you're submitting a patch to make checkpatch >> be quiet, re-assess the need. If you're making changes and you can fix >> some checkpatch items while you're there, then do so. > > Decent rule. > >> There are certainly legitimate checkpatch-only patches, I just don't >> think this is one qualifies. > > Of course it's the maintainer's choice (and last I saw, > that's you) to ignore whatever doesn't fit the appropriate > vision for the code. > > $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/irqchip/irq-crossbar.c > Thomas Gleixner (maintainer:IRQCHIP DRIVERS) > Jason Cooper (maintainer:IRQCHIP DRIVERS) Ok, if this is not qualifying as a separate patch then i will merge this with other patches in the series which touch them. Regards, Sricharan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html