Re: [x86] is checkpatch.pl broken

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> wrote:

> orig:
> mbr_base = (buf_base+sector_size-1) & ~(sector_size-1);
> new (could be):
> mbr_base = (buf_base + sector_size - 1) & ~(sector_size - 1);
> 
> Is a new version that bad?

it's certainly acceptable as newly introduced code but only borderline 
better than the original code. I'd suggest to stick to the problem areas 
that checkpatch.pl complains about at the moment - we have really 
obvious bad looking pieces of code that checkpatch.pl reports, and going 
after the borderline cases will only result in coding-style lawyering 
and flamewars, not any genuine increase in code quality ;-)

for example:

  arch/x86/kernel/bootflag.c:

  total: 19 errors, 2 warnings, 98 lines checked

or:

  arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c:

  total: 56 errors, 31 warnings, 2402 lines checked

and once we have nothing but the borderline cases and if we get really 
bored we can start coding style flamewars ;-)

	Ingo