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Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Minimize checkpatch induced patches...
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>,
        Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 12:09:48 -0700
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On Wed, 2016-09-14 at 20:54 +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> On 09/14/2016 08:33 PM, Greg KH wrote:
> > That's not true, I _WANT_ checkpatch cleanups for the portion of the
> > kernel I maintain.  It keeps the code correct, up to date, easier to
> > maintain, and in doing so, we have found real bugs over time.
> Assuming that there are others with the same opinions that means that 
> Joes patch is not the right solution?

The patch doesn't forbid that.

It just means any checkpatch induced change outside of
drivers/staging would generally be intentional and would not
commonly be submitted by inexperienced developers.