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> 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