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From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
To: Pradheep Shrinivasan <pradheep.sh@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, devel@linuxdriverproject.org,
	joe@perches.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] staging: bcm: fix checkpatch.pl errors and warnings in Version.h
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:21:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120222112144.GC2491@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANz8tm16FvLjUbgPWTsiz5WTje-bRCEAE1eWx3=F48Lm66-Tyg@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 01:10:06AM +0530, Pradheep Shrinivasan wrote:

> > Are you asking me if I'm going to NAK your patch?  No.  It's an
> > unfortunate thing.  Checkpatch.pl is going around telling people to
> > add bogus parenthesis everywhere, and no one likes to redo their
> > patches.  And I feel like a jerk for telling people that they should
> > redo their patches.  And checkpatch.pl is a robot which has more
> > energy than I do.

In theory the number of things it gets right outweigh the things it gets
wrong and you do save energy overall.

I will poke checkpatch to try and stop it getting these wrong.

-apw

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-22 11:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4f428dfc.e302440a.02ba.6747@mx.google.com>
2012-02-20 18:31 ` [PATCH 2/5] staging: bcm: fix checkpatch.pl errors and warnings in Version.h Dan Carpenter
     [not found]   ` <CANz8tm3t5HM9QeNk+h4gNtbTs2UUW1qOe0t=TgnuSD3_gw_A7Q@mail.gmail.com>
2012-02-20 19:09     ` Dan Carpenter
     [not found]       ` <CANz8tm16FvLjUbgPWTsiz5WTje-bRCEAE1eWx3=F48Lm66-Tyg@mail.gmail.com>
2012-02-22 11:21         ` Andy Whitcroft [this message]
2012-02-22 13:51           ` Macros with complex values should be enclosed in parenthesis Dan Carpenter

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