Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753924AbbBKWrG (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2015 17:47:06 -0500 Received: from a.ns.miles-group.at ([95.130.255.143]:65275 "EHLO radon.swed.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753150AbbBKWrE (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2015 17:47:04 -0500 Message-ID: <54DBDBE0.1080000@nod.at> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 23:46:56 +0100 From: Richard Weinberger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Carpenter , Joe Perches CC: Pavel Machek , Richard Weinberger , Andrew Morton , "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" , gmate.amit@gmail.com, Greg KH , Bas Peters , LKML , Pushpendra Singh , manuel.schoelling@gmx.de, Sudip Mukherjee , Kalle Valo Subject: Re: checkpatch induced patches... References: <20150211083328.GJ5206@mwanda> <1423647637.15343.16.camel@perches.com> <20150211105122.GN5206@mwanda> <1423677629.15343.18.camel@perches.com> <20150211183615.GQ5206@mwanda> <1423686025.15343.20.camel@perches.com> <20150211202441.GD29636@amd> <1423687383.15343.22.camel@perches.com> <20150211224300.GD5155@mwanda> In-Reply-To: <20150211224300.GD5155@mwanda> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1079 Lines: 23 Am 11.02.2015 um 23:43 schrieb Dan Carpenter: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 12:43:03PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: >> Maybe some help/warning text like: >> >> --force Without --force, checkpatch will not scan files >> using -f or --file outside of drivers/staging/... >> Do not use this option merely to create potential >> patches that are uncompiled or untested. > > Everyone compiles their patches hopefully? The problem is with patches > that aren't really a cleanup but are just done to make checkpatch happy. > > I guess documenting --force is better than not documenting. Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing. -- Dick Brandon Thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/