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From: Philip Li <philip.li@intel.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>,
	Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] Patches from the future - can checkpatch help?
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 22:54:45 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210202145445.GA14043@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d5277573215624098109e888c01f4b10fa917439.camel@perches.com>

On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 04:48:04AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2021-02-01 at 22:41 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> > The idea of a bot seems nice though in general.
> > People do have all the style checking scripts at their disposal, but still
> > we see style issues on the list.
> > 
> > Something similar to the kernel test robot, but for style issues seems nice.
> > Is it something the community would like?
> 
> (Adding lkp)
> 
> Maybe yes, but likely it depends on the particular audience so
> no, not really.
> 
> The kbuild test robot used to run checkpatch on patches and there
> there was negative feedback.  I don't know if the robot is still
> running checkpatch with some subset of message types.
Hi Joe, we had disabled the checkpatch due to low fruit with very limited
useful reports. Is there any recommendation like which kind of types can
be interested?

Thanks

> 
> A thread from 2013:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20130903003958.GA6855@localhost/
> 
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2021-02-02 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-02-01 16:34 Patches from the future - can checkpatch help? Dwaipayan Ray
2021-02-01 16:37 ` [Linux-kernel-mentees] " Greg KH
2021-02-01 16:50   ` Lukas Bulwahn
2021-02-01 17:11     ` Dwaipayan Ray
2021-02-02 12:48       ` Joe Perches
2021-02-02 14:54         ` Philip Li [this message]
2021-02-01 17:59     ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-01 17:01   ` Dwaipayan Ray
2021-02-02 11:57     ` Greg KH

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