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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
	Naveen Panwar <naveen.panwar27@gmail.com>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-doc <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: netlogic: platform_net: Fixed '(' at the EOL
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 12:22:06 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1515961326.3045.8.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180114201008.GM13338@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

On Sun, 2018-01-14 at 20:10 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 11:47:11PM +0530, Naveen Panwar wrote:
> > Removed '(' from the end of line, coding style issue.
> 
> The one and only reason for warnings is that they point to
> places more likely to be dodgy.  There is no inherent value
> in having e.g. checkpatch.pl STFU, all wanking about uniformity
> of style nonwithstanding.

[ long and complete response removed, available at
  https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10162725/ ]

It was very generous of you to spend so much time on that
informative and thorough reply Al.

My own response was _much_ more terse.

What I wonder is if that sort of guided response can be
setup as documentation for kernel-newbies / janitors so
that future new submitters can have better ideas as to
what code can and should be improved instead of getting
simple and sometimes ill-advised whitespace changes.

cheers, Joe

  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-14 20:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-14 18:17 [PATCH] Staging: netlogic: platform_net: Fixed '(' at the EOL Naveen Panwar
2018-01-14 18:44 ` Joe Perches
2018-01-14 20:10 ` Al Viro
2018-01-14 20:22   ` Joe Perches [this message]
2018-01-15  6:01     ` Naveen Panwar
2018-01-16 14:03       ` Naveen Panwar
2018-01-16 14:29         ` Dan Carpenter
2018-01-16 15:07         ` Greg KH

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