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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	devel@linuxdriverproject.org
Subject: Re: Clarification for general change acceptance
Date: Fri, 12 May 2017 10:45:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <435021fd-ec99-eb58-c69a-a48cadd1f610@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1705121635000.2981@hadrien>

> When you make a patch, you are not obliged to eliminate all of the other
> checkpatch warnings on the file.

Your view is generally fine.


> I don't know where you got this idea from.

I got used as a professional software developer to some approaches for
reducing development warnings to some degree. So I picked further update
suggestions up also from this source code analysis tool.

Regards,
Markus

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-12  8:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-11 16:14 [PATCH 0/4] VMBus: Adjustments for some function implementations SF Markus Elfring
2017-05-11 16:15 ` [PATCH 1/4] vmbus: Improve a size determination in vmbus_device_create() SF Markus Elfring
2017-05-11 16:30   ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-05-11 17:47     ` Greg KH
2017-05-11 16:17 ` [PATCH 2/4] vmbus: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation " SF Markus Elfring
2017-05-11 16:30   ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-05-11 16:36     ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-05-11 16:42       ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-05-12  7:09     ` [PATCH 2/4] " Dan Carpenter
2017-05-12  7:32       ` SF Markus Elfring
2017-05-12  7:52         ` Joe Perches
2017-05-12  8:23           ` Clarification for general change acceptance SF Markus Elfring
2017-05-12  8:37             ` Julia Lawall
2017-05-12  8:45               ` SF Markus Elfring [this message]
2017-05-11 16:18 ` [PATCH 3/4] vmbus: Fix a typo in a comment line SF Markus Elfring
2017-05-11 16:33   ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-05-11 16:19 ` [PATCH 4/4] vmbus: Adjust five checks for null pointers SF Markus Elfring
2017-05-11 16:34   ` Stephen Hemminger

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