From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] SCRIPTS: s/should/must/ for all ERRORs
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 23:01:19 +0100
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Richard Hartmann <richih.mailinglist@gmail.com> writes:

> Personally, I feel that warnings are suggestions and errors are hard
> limits,

This is technically impossible - humans are much smarter than the simple
checkpatch script and still every one of us was proven wrong, many times.

These hard limits are not that necessary, though - a fair dose of
flexibility and common sense is an advantage.
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Krzysztof Halasa