From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>, Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>,
Glenn Streiff <gstreiff@NetEffect.com>,
Faisal Latif <flatif@NetEffect.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, general@lists.openfabrics.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Merging of completely unreviewed drivers
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:43:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080221224315.GA27640@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080221223303.GD1846@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru>
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 01:33:03AM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 01:14:55PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Quite frankly, I've several times been *this* close (holds up fingers so
> > you can't even see between them) to just remove checkpatch entirely.
>
> Agrh! What stopped you?!
>
> > I'm personally of the opinion that a lot of checkpatch "fixes" are
> > anything but. That mainly concerns fixing overlong lines (where the
> > "fixed" version is usually worse than the original), but it's been true
> > for some other warnings too.
>
> Speaking of driver, could authors please comment all those barrier()
> calls and remove trailing "return;" at the end of void functions.
Why don't you make a patch to checkpatch.pl for those types of things?
:)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-21 22:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-19 22:59 [2.6 patch] infiniband/hw/nes/nes_verbs.c: fix off-by-one Adrian Bunk
2008-02-20 4:23 ` [ofa-general] " Roland Dreier
2008-02-20 5:57 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-20 23:21 ` Roland Dreier
2008-02-20 23:27 ` Glenn Streiff
2008-02-21 12:39 ` Glenn Streiff
2008-02-21 15:49 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-21 20:28 ` Roland Dreier
2008-02-21 21:01 ` Merging of completely unreviewed drivers Adrian Bunk
2008-02-21 21:09 ` Roland Dreier
2008-02-21 21:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-21 22:33 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-02-21 22:43 ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-02-21 22:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-21 22:58 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-02-21 23:31 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-21 23:38 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-02-21 23:31 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-22 0:29 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-21 23:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-22 0:05 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-02-22 0:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-22 2:02 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-02-22 10:04 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-22 18:45 ` Pavel Machek
2008-02-22 22:44 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-02-23 9:43 ` Pavel Machek
2008-02-23 12:38 ` David Newall
2008-02-23 15:25 ` Pavel Machek
2008-02-24 3:18 ` David Newall
2008-02-23 17:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-24 3:26 ` David Newall
2008-02-24 4:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-23 13:58 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-02-22 1:46 ` David Newall
2008-02-22 2:06 ` Al Viro
2008-02-22 2:23 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-02-22 3:13 ` Al Viro
2008-02-22 22:28 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-02-24 7:47 ` Jörn Engel
2008-02-24 14:47 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-02-22 3:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-22 6:29 ` [ofa-general] " Junio C Hamano
2008-02-22 9:02 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-22 6:37 ` Ray Lee
2008-02-23 15:31 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-24 3:22 ` David Newall
2008-02-22 22:37 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-02-22 12:29 ` [ofa-general] " Bart Van Assche
2008-02-22 14:25 ` David Newall
2008-02-22 15:17 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-02-22 16:48 ` John W. Linville
2008-02-22 22:59 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2008-02-22 23:14 ` Al Viro
2008-02-22 15:48 ` John W. Linville
2008-02-22 18:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-02-22 19:11 ` [ofa-general] " Bart Van Assche
2008-02-22 19:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-22 19:44 ` Greg KH
2008-02-21 21:30 ` Greg KH
2008-02-22 1:06 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-21 22:08 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-02-21 22:33 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-21 23:40 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-22 18:40 ` Pavel Machek
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