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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?
:)


  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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