From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753494AbcCJT2a (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2016 14:28:30 -0500 Received: from mail-pf0-f171.google.com ([209.85.192.171]:34878 "EHLO mail-pf0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752217AbcCJT2V (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2016 14:28:21 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 11:28:18 -0800 From: Brian Norris To: Joe Perches Cc: "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: checkpatch.pl false positive: FSF mailing address Message-ID: <20160310192818.GA9902@google.com> References: <20160310190023.GB2545@google.com> <1457636880.3433.12.camel@perches.com> <1457637955.3433.17.camel@perches.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1457637955.3433.17.camel@perches.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 11:25:55AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > On Thu, 2016-03-10 at 11:15 -0800, Brian Norris wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Joe Perches wrote: > > Hey again Brian. > > > > Yeah, it's amusing.  It's also likely not something worth > > > bothering with though as the likelihood of fixing it is low > > > and eventually the FSF warning will be minimized or removed > > > as no longer necessary. > > An easy improvement: don't use "ignore case" for the regex. > > Maybe, but: > > drivers/pcmcia/bfin_cf_pcmcia.c: * if not, write to the free software foundation, > > Of course there's only one of those too. > > Mostly, it's a "I just don't care very much" warning. > > If you care enough to submit a patch removing the "/i" > from the regex, please do and cc Andrew Morton too. Maybe I will. > > > checkpatch is stupid, false positives will always exist. > > I'd almost rather have people understand this. Then perhaps I'll also patch this note out: NOTE: If any of the errors are false positives, please report them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS. Regards, Brian