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From: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, roel <12o3l@tiscali.nl>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spin_lock_unlocked cleanups
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:31:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070928173155.GD3219@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070928012656.0bae3991.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 01:26:56AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:17:30 +0200 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> 
> > can we please add this to checkpatch.pl ? 
> > 
> > > -spinlock_t bpci_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
> > > +DEFINE_SPINLOCK(bpci_lock);
> 
> That check is already in checkpatch.  Problem is that hardly anyone
> runs the thing.
> 
> I think we're ready to wire checkpatch up to a email robot which monitors
> the mailing lists and sends people nastygrams.  I bet that'll be popular ;)

One could make check patch create a signature hashing a check patch key
and the patch one could put in the post like a signed-off-by: thing.

checkpatch-sig : 2f818bcf0c2333a461affc4a170814f23adf2e08

this puts the burden on the sender to run the thing.

--mgross

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-28 17:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-27 21:36 [PATCH] spin_lock_unlocked cleanups roel
2007-09-28  8:17 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-28  8:26   ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-28  8:30     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-28  8:55       ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-28  8:32     ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-28  8:56       ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-09-28  9:06         ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-28 21:15           ` Sean
2007-09-28  8:53     ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-09-28  9:05       ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-28 17:31     ` Mark Gross [this message]

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