From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753397AbcCJT0G (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2016 14:26:06 -0500 Received: from smtprelay0241.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.241]:42986 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752217AbcCJTZ7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2016 14:25:59 -0500 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:599:800:960:966:968:973:988:989:1042:1260:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1540:1593:1594:1711:1730:1747:1777:1792:2196:2198:2199:2200:2393:2553:2559:2562:2692:2693:2828:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3352:3622:3698:3865:3866:3867:3868:3871:3872:3873:4250:4321:4385:5007:6119:6120:6261:7901:7903:10004:10400:10848:11026:11232:11658:11783:11914:12043:12517:12519:12740:13069:13311:13357:13439:13894:14659:14721:21080:30003:30054:30070:30090:30091,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:fn,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:0:0,LFtime:2,LUA_SUMMARY:none X-HE-Tag: cause17_8b438897bcc05 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 1829 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" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.18.5.1-1ubuntu1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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.