From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtprelay0190.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.190] helo=smtprelay.hostedemail.com) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.80.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1ae6Dz-0008C1-S8 for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 10 Mar 2016 19:26:20 +0000 Message-ID: <1457637955.3433.17.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: checkpatch.pl false positive: FSF mailing address From: Joe Perches To: Brian Norris Cc: "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" , Linux Kernel Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 11:25:55 -0800 In-Reply-To: References: <20160310190023.GB2545@google.com> <1457636880.3433.12.camel@perches.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Thu, 2016-03-10 at 11:15 -0800, Brian Norris wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Joe Perches wrote: Hey again Brian. > > Yeah, it's amusing.  It's also likely not something worth > > bothering with though as the likelihood of fixing it is low > > and eventually the FSF warning will be minimized or removed > > as no longer necessary. > An easy improvement: don't use "ignore case" for the regex. Maybe, but: drivers/pcmcia/bfin_cf_pcmcia.c: * if not, write to the free software foundation, Of course there's only one of those too. Mostly, it's a "I just don't care very much" warning. If you care enough to submit a patch removing the "/i" from the regex, please do and cc Andrew Morton too. > > checkpatch is stupid, false positives will always exist. I'd almost rather have people understand this.