Re: [GIT PULL] x86/mm fixes

Linus Torvalds
2010-03-03T17:11:50Z

On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Wu Fengguang wrote:
>
> Anyway I just hacked /usr/share/quilt/refresh to automatically run the
> kernel style checker:
>
> # wfg: check for kernel coding style
> if [ -x scripts/checkpatch.pl ]; then
> scripts/checkpatch.pl $patch_file
> fi

It's probably sensible to check things, but do remember that some of the
things checkpatch warns about are better left the way they are, rather
than make the code uglier just to make checkpatch happy.

Linus