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From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
To: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change a WARN message in checkpatch
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:56:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080128145605.GI12910@shadowen.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080114232913.2555d392@paolo-desktop>

On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 11:29:13PM +0100, Paolo Ciarrocchi wrote:
> Hi Andy,
> When I started using checkpatch I was confused by the following WARN message:
> 
> 	no space between function name and open parenthesis
> 
> I thought the problem was that a space was missing while the truth is the opposite.
> 
> How about the following patch?

I can see how that language would be confusing.  Your patch makes the
english clearer, but somehow seems clumsy.  There must be a better way
to say this.  I will think on it and see what I can come up with.

-apw

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-28 14:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-14 22:29 [PATCH] Change a WARN message in checkpatch Paolo Ciarrocchi
2008-01-28 14:56 ` Andy Whitcroft [this message]
2008-01-28 15:13   ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2008-02-23 13:38     ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2008-02-24 15:18       ` Benny Halevy
2008-02-24 18:14         ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2008-02-25  3:29           ` Andy Whitcroft
2008-02-25  5:47             ` Benny Halevy
2008-02-25  6:51             ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2008-02-25 10:53               ` Andy Whitcroft
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-01-04 12:45 Paolo Ciarrocchi

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