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Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: simplify the output of --list-types
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
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        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2017 08:48:36 -0700
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On Mon, 2017-09-04 at 10:08 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> Drop the header and numbering of types. This format was confusing as
> it suggested one could pass the number instead of the type name,
> however it did not actually work, and numbering wasn't stable anyway.

<shrug>  If it makes you happy.

I suppose a bigger improvement would be to detail
the purpose of each type.

Most are fairly obvious, some like MEMSET are
a bit obscure.

Another defect:

The list also includes types that are commented out.