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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
	gmate.amit@gmail.com, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	Bas Peters <baspeters93@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Pushpendra Singh <pushpendra.singh@smartplayin.com>,
	manuel.schoelling@gmx.de,
	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: checkpatch induced patches...
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 01:43:00 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150211224300.GD5155@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1423687383.15343.22.camel@perches.com>

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 12:43:03PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> Maybe some help/warning text like:
> 
>   --force                    Without --force, checkpatch will not scan files
>                              using -f or --file outside of drivers/staging/...
>                              Do not use this option merely to create potential
>                              patches that are uncompiled or untested.

Everyone compiles their patches hopefully?  The problem is with patches
that aren't really a cleanup but are just done to make checkpatch happy.

I guess documenting --force is better than not documenting.

regards,
dan carpenter

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-11 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-10 13:02 [PATCH 1/6] staging: rt8188eu: hal: removed space before ',' Pushpendra Singh
2015-02-10 13:02 ` [PATCH 2/6] staging: rtl8188eu: hal: removed code indent error Pushpendra Singh
2015-02-10 14:13   ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-02-10 14:27     ` Bas Peters
2015-02-10 14:48       ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-02-11  8:33       ` Dan Carpenter
2015-02-11  9:40         ` Joe Perches
2015-02-11 10:51           ` Dan Carpenter
2015-02-11 18:00             ` checkpatch induced patches Joe Perches
2015-02-11 18:36               ` Dan Carpenter
2015-02-11 20:02                 ` Richard Weinberger
2015-02-11 20:20                   ` Joe Perches
2015-02-11 20:24                     ` Pavel Machek
2015-02-11 20:43                       ` Joe Perches
2015-02-11 22:43                         ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2015-02-11 22:46                           ` Richard Weinberger
2015-02-11 23:01                           ` Joe Perches
2015-02-12  8:03                           ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-02-12 16:44                     ` Kalle Valo
2015-02-10 22:25   ` [PATCH 2/6] staging: rtl8188eu: hal: removed code indent error Greg KH
2015-02-10 13:02 ` [PATCH 3/6] staging: rtl8188eu: hal: removed unnecessary braces Pushpendra Singh
2015-02-10 13:02 ` [PATCH 4/6] staging: rtl8188eu: hal: added blank line after declarations Pushpendra Singh
2015-02-10 13:02 ` [PATCH 5/6] staging: rtl8188eu: hal: removed spaces at start of line Pushpendra Singh
2015-02-10 13:02 ` [PATCH 6/6] staging: rtl8188eu: hal: removed unnecessary parentheses Pushpendra Singh

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