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Date:   Fri, 20 Nov 2020 15:50:26 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mdio_bus: suppress err message for reset gpio
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Hi Joe

> reverse xmas tree is completely crazy.
> 
> But I posted a patch to checkpatch to suggest it for net/
> and drivers/net/ once
> 
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/11/4/54
 

> From Joe Perches <> 
>
...

> and the reverse xmas tree helpfulness of looking up the
> type of bar is neither obvious nor easy.
>
> My preference would be for a bar that serves coffee and alcohol.

Ah, those were the days.

Anyway, can this patch be brought back to life, with the problem
pointed out fixed? It is still something we do in netdev, and a
machine can spot these problems better than a human maintainer or
developer.

Thanks
	Andrew