Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934168AbZJGPmQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Oct 2009 11:42:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933154AbZJGPmP (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Oct 2009 11:42:15 -0400 Received: from fifo99.com ([67.223.236.141]:36005 "EHLO fifo99.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933285AbZJGPmO (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Oct 2009 11:42:14 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] checkpatch: add a blacklist From: Daniel Walker To: Alan Cox Cc: Krzysztof Halasa , Andy Whitcroft , Li Zefan , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Steven Rostedt In-Reply-To: <20091007161107.72b4031b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> References: <1253585691-10987-1-git-send-email-dwalker@fifo99.com> <1253585691-10987-2-git-send-email-dwalker@fifo99.com> <1253585691-10987-3-git-send-email-dwalker@fifo99.com> <4AB86ED1.1040200@cn.fujitsu.com> <20090930152708.GD2957@shadowen.org> <1254406711.18167.88.camel@desktop> <1254887534.18167.253.camel@desktop> <1254925617.18167.262.camel@desktop> <1254927438.18167.275.camel@desktop> <20091007161107.72b4031b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:41:08 -0700 Message-Id: <1254930068.18167.304.camel@desktop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 689 Lines: 18 On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 16:11 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > Right it's a tool .. However, you should use it and you should follow > > it. If for some reason you disagree with the tool you have to give at > > least an arguable reason why, not just "It's a guide", "I don't like the > > coding style." etc.. > > Those are perfectly good reasons. I don't think they are.. Like adding spaces for tabs is ok cause checkpatch is a guide right? Daniel -- 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/