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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@jic23.retrosnub.co.uk>,
	linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>,
	Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@gmx.de>, Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>,
	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>,
	Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@pmeerw.net>,
	Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Software evolution around “checkpatch.pl”?
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 19:30:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a988eca2-36d4-19bd-e92c-1a92e497e0da@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1518284577.16865.8.camel@perches.com>

>> So I think checkpatch is striking the right balance here in
>> how it warns.  Obviously if it could assess the text
>> and come to an informed decision that would be great but
>> we are some way from that ;)
> 
> The 'informed' bit is difficult as it is mostly a political problem.

I find such a view very interesting.


> I just wish Markus would improve his consistently terrible commit messages

I tried to achieve another clarification a few times.


> that just restate the action being done and detail
> _why_ a particular thing _should_ be done.

Unfortunately, it seems that no other contributors picked
corresponding opportunities up so far.

You indicated also special software development challenges in your commit
“checkpatch: attempt to find unnecessary 'out of memory' messages”.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/10/382
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ebfdc40969f24fc0cdd1349835d36e8ebae05374


> His acceptance rate would improve as many of these back and forth
> replies for what trivialities he posts as patches would be minimized.

My selection of change possibilities leads to mixed integration results.

I stumbled on variations for general change resistance.

Regards,
Markus

      reply	other threads:[~2018-02-10 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-31 21:26 [PATCH] hid-sensor-accel-3d: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in hid_accel_3d_probe() SF Markus Elfring
2018-02-04 11:23 ` Jonathan Cameron
2018-02-05 18:26   ` SF Markus Elfring
2018-02-05 21:51     ` Jonathan Cameron
2018-02-06  8:45       ` Software evolution around “checkpatch.pl”? SF Markus Elfring
2018-02-10 14:53         ` Jonathan Cameron
2018-02-10 14:59           ` Joe Perches
2018-02-10 15:57             ` Jonathan Cameron
2018-02-10 17:42               ` Joe Perches
2018-02-10 18:30                 ` SF Markus Elfring [this message]

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