From: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
To: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>,
Tracey Dent <tdent48227@gmail.com>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] Fs: ext4: namei: fixed file of checkpatch/pl warnings and errors
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:35:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1285526141.3047.0.camel@cowboy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100926182338.GM19690@thunk.org>
On Sun, 2010-09-26 at 14:23 -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 08:36:34AM +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> >
> > BTW I wouldn't trust checkpatch so blindly. Also keep in mind checkpatch
> > is only a tool and that maintainers have full authority to ignore the
> > problems (or "problems") it spews.
>
> I'm beginning to think we need to have an entry in the kernel newbie's
> FAQ warning people that the output of various scripts such as
> checkpatch and get_maintainer are not authoratative, and are
> hueristics intended to be supplemented by human intelligence.
It would actually be quite useful to add a warning in kernelnewbies
about this, some people tend to get too carried away :)
Davidlohr
>
> - TEd
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-26 18:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-25 18:31 [PATCH 01/10] Fs: ext4: acl.c: fixed indent issue Tracey Dent
2010-09-25 18:31 ` [PATCH 02/10] Fs: ext4: acl.h: whitespace cleanup Tracey Dent
2010-09-26 6:11 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2010-09-25 18:31 ` [PATCH 03/10] Fs: ext: balloc: fixed a few issues that checkpatch.pl was having Tracey Dent
2010-09-25 18:31 ` [PATCH 04/10] Fs: ext4: block_validity: added space around = sign Tracey Dent
2010-09-25 18:31 ` [PATCH 05/10] Fs: ext4: ext4: cleaned up the file with checkpatch.pl Tracey Dent
2010-09-26 6:23 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2010-09-25 18:31 ` [PATCH 06/10] Fs: ext4: extents: whitespace cleanup Tracey Dent
2010-09-25 18:31 ` [PATCH 07/10] Fs: ext4: file: fixed indent problem Tracey Dent
2010-09-25 18:31 ` [PATCH 08/10] Fs: ext4: ioctl: fixed spacing issue Tracey Dent
2010-09-25 18:32 ` [PATCH 09/10] Fs: ext4: mballoc.c: whitespace cleanup Tracey Dent
2010-09-25 18:32 ` [PATCH 10/10] Fs: ext4: namei: fixed file of checkpatch/pl warnings and errors Tracey Dent
2010-09-26 6:36 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2010-09-26 18:23 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-26 18:35 ` Davidlohr Bueso [this message]
2010-09-26 19:17 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2010-09-25 23:36 ` [PATCH 01/10] Fs: ext4: acl.c: fixed indent issue Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-25 23:53 ` T Dent
2010-09-25 23:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-26 0:01 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-26 0:09 ` Joe Perches
2010-09-26 0:32 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-26 0:36 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-26 0:50 ` Joe Perches
2010-09-26 0:58 ` Joe Perches
2010-09-26 6:42 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2010-09-26 6:49 ` Joe Perches
2010-09-26 11:31 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2010-09-26 1:04 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-26 1:32 ` Joe Perches
2010-09-26 1:53 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-26 2:03 ` Joe Perches
2010-09-26 2:10 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-26 2:21 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-26 2:45 ` Joe Perches
2010-09-26 2:29 ` Joe Perches
2010-09-26 0:06 ` Joe Perches
2010-09-26 20:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-26 22:17 ` Joe Perches
2010-09-25 23:54 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-09-27 13:52 ` Eric Sandeen
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