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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Geyslan G. Bem" <geyslan@gmail.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: remove unnecessary space after cast
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 13:49:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160104214924.GA13959@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGG-pURUsu32SrQTjOvogQVHJr_1QegO6eoRiU-CmQkufw9KhQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 06:40:38PM -0300, Geyslan G. Bem wrote:
> 2016-01-04 17:58 GMT-03:00 Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>:
> > On Mon, 4 Jan 2016, Geyslan G. Bem wrote:
> >
> >> This patch fixes coding style issues reported by checkpatch concerning
> >> to unnecessary space after a cast.
> >
> > This is a case where checkpatch is wrong, IMO.  Casts should always be
> > followed by a space.  I will not accept this patch.
> Ok. I understand.
> 
> >
> > This must be something recently added to checkpatch.  It never used to
> > complain about casts, whether they were followed by a space or not.
> I'm using the checkpatch --strict option.

Please never use that on existing kernel code, except for
drivers/staging/ stuff, otherwise your patches will start to very
quickly be ignored.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-04 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-04 20:09 [PATCH 00/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: cleanup and refactoring Geyslan G. Bem
2016-01-04 20:09 ` [PATCH 01/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: remove space before open parenthesis Geyslan G. Bem
2016-01-04 20:09 ` [PATCH 02/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: remove space before open square bracket Geyslan G. Bem
2016-01-04 20:09 ` [PATCH 03/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: use C89-style comments Geyslan G. Bem
2016-01-04 20:09 ` [PATCH 04/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: move trailing statements to next line Geyslan G. Bem
2016-01-04 20:09 ` [PATCH 05/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: fix up closing parenthesis Geyslan G. Bem
2016-01-04 20:09 ` [PATCH 06/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: put spaces around operators Geyslan G. Bem
2016-01-04 20:09 ` [PATCH 07/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: fix unsigned comparison Geyslan G. Bem
2016-01-04 20:50   ` Alan Stern
2016-01-04 21:35     ` Geyslan G. Bem
2016-01-04 21:52       ` Alan Stern
2016-01-04 20:09 ` [PATCH 08/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: remove unnecessary space after cast Geyslan G. Bem
2016-01-04 20:58   ` Alan Stern
2016-01-04 21:40     ` Geyslan G. Bem
2016-01-04 21:49       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2016-01-04 21:52         ` Sergei Shtylyov
2016-01-04 22:07           ` Geyslan G. Bem
2016-01-05  2:40             ` Joe Perches
2016-01-05 15:16               ` Geyslan G. Bem
2016-01-05 16:41               ` Alan Stern
2016-01-04 20:09 ` [PATCH 09/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: fix up function definitions Geyslan G. Bem
2016-01-04 21:00   ` Alan Stern
2016-01-04 23:28     ` Geyslan G. Bem
2016-01-05 15:12       ` Alan Stern
2016-01-05 15:20         ` Joe Perches
2016-01-05 15:23         ` Joe Perches
2016-01-05 15:27           ` Geyslan G. Bem
2016-01-05 15:36             ` Geyslan G. Bem
2016-01-05 16:06           ` Alan Stern
2016-01-05 16:10             ` Joe Perches
2016-01-05 16:29               ` Alan Stern
2016-01-05 17:03                 ` Geyslan G. Bem
2016-01-04 20:09 ` [PATCH 10/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: use a blank line after struct declarations Geyslan G. Bem
2016-01-04 20:09 ` [PATCH 11/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: convert macro to inline function Geyslan G. Bem
2016-01-04 20:09 ` [PATCH 12/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: add blank line after declarations Geyslan G. Bem
2016-01-04 20:09 ` [PATCH 13/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: remove blank line before close brace Geyslan G. Bem
2016-01-04 20:09 ` [PATCH 14/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: replace sizeof operand Geyslan G. Bem
2016-01-04 20:10 ` [PATCH 15/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: enclose conditional blocks with braces Geyslan G. Bem
2016-01-04 20:10 ` [PATCH 16/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: prefer kmalloc_array over kmalloc times size Geyslan G. Bem
2016-01-04 20:10 ` [PATCH 17/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: refactor fill_periodic_buffer function Geyslan G. Bem
2016-01-04 21:01   ` Alan Stern
2016-01-05  1:19     ` Geyslan G. Bem
2016-01-05 15:15       ` Alan Stern
2016-01-05 15:41         ` Geyslan G. Bem

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