From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758000Ab0IZSfs (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:35:48 -0400 Received: from caiajhbdcaid.dreamhost.com ([208.97.132.83]:35276 "EHLO homiemail-a3.g.dreamhost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757418Ab0IZSfr (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:35:47 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] Fs: ext4: namei: fixed file of checkpatch/pl warnings and errors From: Davidlohr Bueso Reply-To: dave@gnu.org To: "Ted Ts'o" Cc: Krzysztof Halasa , Tracey Dent , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20100926182338.GM19690@thunk.org> References: <1285439521-2557-1-git-send-email-tdent48227@gmail.com> <1285439521-2557-10-git-send-email-tdent48227@gmail.com> <20100926182338.GM19690@thunk.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:35:41 -0400 Message-ID: <1285526141.3047.0.camel@cowboy> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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 > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >