From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
roland@redhat.com, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com,
hjl.tools@gmail.com, Linus <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next requirements
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 16:42:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100303164202.3e5b7435.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1003032312000.2014@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 01:35:43 +0100 (CET) Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> As a side note: We created checkpatch.pl, to have a tool which helps
> us to alert developers about stuff which is deprecated and as a
> byproduct the coding style rules. I think it's a useful tool in
> general, just the outcome is an utter trainwreck:
>
> We have hordes of whitespace, spelling and codingstyle cleanup
> maniacs, while the hard stuff of replacing deprecated interfaces like
> semaphore based mutexes / completions, cleaning up the BKL horror,
> etc. is left to a few already overworked people who care.
>
> What's even worse is it that developers of new code and the
> maintainers who are merging it simply ignore its existance for
> whatever reasons. I can accept the whitespace argument, but I have no
> grasp why deprecation warnings are ignored at will.
um, write checkpatch rules to detect new additions of deprecated features.
I take patches.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-04 0:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-11 19:50 [patch v3 0/2] updated ptrace/core-dump patches for supporting xstate - v3 Suresh Siddha
2010-02-11 19:50 ` [patch v3 1/2] x86, ptrace: regset extensions to support xstate Suresh Siddha
2010-02-11 23:18 ` [tip:x86/ptrace] " tip-bot for Suresh Siddha
2010-02-12 3:45 ` [patch v3 1/2] " Roland McGrath
2010-02-12 17:31 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-02-11 19:51 ` [patch v3 2/2] ptrace: Add support for generic PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET Suresh Siddha
2010-02-11 23:19 ` [tip:x86/ptrace] " tip-bot for Suresh Siddha
2010-02-22 9:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-22 9:33 ` linux-next requiements (Was: Re: [tip:x86/ptrace] ptrace: Add support for generic PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET) Stephen Rothwell
2010-02-22 10:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-22 11:47 ` linux-next requirements " Stephen Rothwell
2010-02-22 22:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-02-22 23:59 ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-02-23 20:20 ` Roland McGrath
2010-02-23 20:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-02-23 22:54 ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-02-23 8:45 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-23 19:52 ` Al Viro
2010-02-23 19:57 ` Al Viro
2010-02-24 7:25 ` linux-next requirements Stephen Rothwell
2010-02-27 1:53 ` Grant Likely
2010-02-27 8:53 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-02-27 9:09 ` Jaswinder Singh Rajput
2010-02-27 9:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-27 12:23 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-02-27 12:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-27 19:07 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-02-27 21:50 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2010-02-27 22:31 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-02-28 7:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-28 12:22 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-02-28 7:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-28 7:37 ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-02-28 7:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-28 8:19 ` Al Viro
2010-02-28 8:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-28 10:26 ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-02-28 7:23 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-01 15:13 ` Nick Bowler
2010-03-03 21:53 ` Pavel Machek
2010-03-04 0:35 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-03-04 0:42 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-03-04 1:17 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-03-04 2:48 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-22 18:37 ` [tip:x86/ptrace] ptrace: Add support for generic PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET Roland McGrath
2010-02-23 18:36 ` [tip:x86/ptrace] parisc: Disable CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK tip-bot for Roland McGrath
2010-02-12 3:56 ` [patch v3 2/2] ptrace: Add support for generic PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET Roland McGrath
2010-02-12 15:59 ` Oleg Nesterov
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