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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>, WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/binfmt_elf.c: fix a do-while statement.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:07:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100126180752.951509b5.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a4c8a6d01001261744n37e3472em8e772d9ecf368adf@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:44:29 -0200 Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com> wrote:

> > It is somewhat unconventional coding style and it'd be good if
> > checkpatch were to warn so that we don't _add_ such things to the tree.
> >
> > But IMO it's such a minor thing that once it _is_ in the tree, it's not
> > really worth the patch noise to go and fix it up.
> 
> Yeah, much noise for a small thing. I will not fix more warnings like
> this in future.

I'd be OK with fixing things like this as part of a larger
"fs/binfmt_elf.c: coding-style fixes" or "fs/*elf.c: ...", etc.  One
big hit.  It's the little dribble of one-line fixes which I'd prefer to
avoid.

      reply	other threads:[~2010-01-27  2:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-21  4:03 [PATCH] fs/binfmt_elf.c: fix a do-while statement Thiago Farina
2010-01-21  6:22 ` Cong Wang
2010-01-27  0:06 ` Andrew Morton
2010-01-27  1:44   ` Thiago Farina
2010-01-27  2:07     ` Andrew Morton [this message]

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