Re: [x86] is checkpatch.pl broken

[Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>]

[Ingo Molnar - Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 06:22:50PM +0100]
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| * Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com> wrote:
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| > 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:
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|   arch/x86/kernel/bootflag.c:
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|   total: 19 errors, 2 warnings, 98 lines checked
| 
| or:
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|   arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c:
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|   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
| 

Thanks Ingo, you're quite right! Next time i'll appear in list with real
(and hope usefull) patch ;)

		Cyrill