Re: [PATCH] Remove errors caught by checkpatch.pl in kernel/kallsyms.c

[Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 04:50:23PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> 
> > Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > We routinely mention Sparse, lockdep, Coverity, Coccinelle, kmemleak, 
> > > ftrace, kmemcheck and other tools as well when it motives to fix a bug 
> > > or uncleanliness. [...] It is absolutely fine to
> > > mention checkpatch when it catches uncleanliness in code that already 
> > > got merged. I dont understand your point.
> > 
> > I wrote "don't mention checkpatch" but I really meant "think about what
> > the effect of the patch is and describe this".
> 
> Are you arguing that in all those other cases the tools should not be 
> mentioned either? I dont think that position is tenable.

Hell, yes.  I'm sick and tired of "$DRIVER: fix sparse warnings <something
far off-screen when looking at it in mutt on xterm>" kind of subjects,
while we are at it.  Mention the tool when that adds information useful for
understanding commit message and patch; otherwise you are just adding noise.