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From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, apw@canonical.com, joe@perches.com,
	tytso@mit.edu, dwalter@google.com, neilb@suse.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Remove --file option
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 07:43:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53C932AD.8050701@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140718142733.GD31270@pd.tnic>

On 07/18/2014 07:27 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 07:21:14AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> Or he could just use the existing -f flag.
>
> If you mean the -f flag to checkpatch, he's removing them both.
>
Two different 'he'.

>> I really don't understand why you're trying to educate people by
>> taking their toy away. They'll find another one in no time anyway.
>
> Maybe we should stop accepting patches created from running
> checkpatch...?
>

Thinking about it, Linux itself can be abused as well. We should
take it away to prevent that abuse from happening. That would
solve your checkpatch problem quite nicely and forever.

Guenter


  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-18 14:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-17 15:34 [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Remove --file option Richard Weinberger
2014-07-17 15:38 ` Borislav Petkov
2014-07-17 15:51 ` Joe Perches
2014-07-17 16:02   ` Borislav Petkov
2014-07-17 16:24     ` Joe Perches
2014-07-22  5:27     ` Kalle Valo
2014-08-04 14:30       ` Pavel Machek
2014-07-17 22:43   ` Thomas Gleixner
2014-07-18  7:29 ` Guenter Roeck
2014-07-18  8:23   ` Borislav Petkov
2014-07-18 13:37     ` Guenter Roeck
2014-07-18 13:46       ` Richard Weinberger
2014-07-18 13:56         ` Guenter Roeck
2014-07-18 14:22           ` Borislav Petkov
2014-07-18 14:21         ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-07-18 14:27           ` Borislav Petkov
2014-07-18 14:43             ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2014-07-18 14:56               ` Borislav Petkov
2014-07-18 14:17 ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2014-07-18 14:24   ` Borislav Petkov
2014-07-18 14:35     ` Joe Perches
2014-07-18 14:49       ` Borislav Petkov
2014-07-18 14:57         ` Joe Perches
2014-07-18 15:06           ` Borislav Petkov

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