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From: Andy Whitcroft <andyw@uk.ibm.com>
To: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] checkpatch.pl: revert wrong --file message
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 22:56:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080216225637.GE24479@shadowen.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84144f020802160227u59c9959emb905808cc7141f2b@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 12:27:33PM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Feb 16, 2008 12:18 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> > People, who do cleanups - I'm not talking about running lindent here -
> > read through the code while they fix it up.
> >
> > Actually they find bugs that way or at least come up with useful
> > questions about code which is not obvious in the first place.
> >
> > Discouraging such cleanups with a pretty offensive warning is
> > counterproductive.
> 
> Well, it's not just about cleanup patches submitted by "newbies". I
> use checkpatch for development too and the warning is real PITA for
> that.

The warning is suppressed on -q as its a pain indeed if one is using it
to check files and you are not intending a single file cleanup.

Is the concensus the warning is useful, or unhelpful.

-apw

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-16 22:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-15 16:52 [patch] checkpatch.pl: revert wrong --file message Ingo Molnar
2008-02-15 17:15 ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-16 10:18   ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-02-16 10:27     ` Pekka Enberg
2008-02-16 11:04       ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2008-02-16 22:56       ` Andy Whitcroft [this message]
2008-02-16 23:47         ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-02-18 10:07       ` Andi Kleen
2008-02-18 10:16     ` Andi Kleen

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