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From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
	Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.10
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:22:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070928092235.GA31180@shadowen.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070928020132.f6c6f528.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 02:01:32AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:40:03 +0200 Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> 
> > i ran it over kernel/sched.c and there are many bogus warnings that i 
> > reported to you earlier:
> > 
> >   WARNING: multiple assignments should be avoided
> >   #2319:
> >   +       max_load = this_load = total_load = total_pwr = 0;
> 
> That warning is non-bogus, although this is one of the bogosities which
> I personally don't bother fixing or making a fuss about.
> 
> But I do think it detracts from the readability of the code, and from
> patches which later alter that code.  A bit.

I tend to agree, watching the automatic replies from checkpatch, the
majority of these are "justifiable" in their context.  I think I'll
lower this one to a CHECK in the next release.

-apw

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-28  9:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-12 15:00 [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.10 Andy Whitcroft
2007-09-28  8:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-28  9:01   ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-28  9:22     ` Andy Whitcroft [this message]
2007-09-28  9:39       ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-28 10:00         ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-09-28 10:46           ` Christian Borntraeger
2007-09-28 11:03             ` WANG Cong
2007-09-28 14:19               ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-28 16:57                 ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-28 10:49           ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-28 13:21             ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-09-28 13:37               ` Pekka Enberg
2007-09-28 14:02                 ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-09-28 15:50               ` Joel Schopp
2007-09-28 17:26               ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-28 17:46               ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-29  9:22                 ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-10-05  5:56             ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-28 16:51           ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-28  9:44     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-28  9:52   ` Andy Whitcroft

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