Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 17:44:47 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
        Youquan Song <youquan.song@linux.intel.com>,
        Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>, Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>,
        Youquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com>,
        Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com>,
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        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86, apic: Enable x2APIC physical when cpu < 256 native
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On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 02:03:51AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> checkpatch tends to be used for firs patch submissions and
> adding it would only encourage a new wave of trivial whitespace
> patches.

Nope, we definitely don't want that...

> I think there are already way, _way_ too many existing instances
> of comments that are of the form
> 	/* foo
> 	 * ...
> to add that.
> 
> There are 10s of thousands outside of net/ and drivers/net/.

... unless there's a way to detect new submissions and scream only
for those. I.e., look at lines starting with "+" which don't have
corresponding "-" lines.

This would need a bit of experimenting and is not trivial though, maybe
Algorithm::Diff could even help there.

Sounds like a mini-project for a perl dude :-)

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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