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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de>,
	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Find CamelCase definitions of struct/union/enum
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 21:23:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130925202322.GB13318@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130925130352.0e89fd9439eff93c69cdcc32@linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 01:03:52PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 21:54:49 +0200 Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> wrote:
> 
> > Am 25.09.2013 21:48, schrieb Joe Perches:
> > 
> > > As I've said multiple times, checkpatch is a stupid
> > > little tool that can be ignored by anyone with
> > > different tastes.
> > 
> > Just that this isn't true for ordinary innocent people posting patches.
> 
> Nobody uses --strict.  Discussion is silly.

That it is, but you are mistaken about nobody using --strict; I've been
amused a while ago by a patch (duly forwarded to Dave Null for processing,
of course) that "fixed" something like goto Efault, in I don't remember
which file ;-)

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-25 20:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-24 18:38 [PATCH] checkpatch: Find CamelCase definitions of struct/union/enum Joe Perches
2013-09-25 15:24 ` Al Viro
2013-09-25 15:35   ` Joe Perches
2013-09-25 16:19     ` Al Viro
2013-09-25 17:27       ` Alexander Holler
2013-09-25 19:22       ` Joe Perches
2013-09-25 19:30         ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-09-25 19:48           ` Joe Perches
2013-09-25 19:54             ` Alexander Holler
2013-09-25 20:03               ` Andrew Morton
2013-09-25 20:23                 ` Al Viro [this message]
2013-09-26  1:10                 ` Theodore Ts'o
2013-09-26  1:13                   ` Andrew Morton
2013-09-25 20:11         ` Al Viro
2013-09-26  0:38           ` Joe Perches

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