From: Davidlohr Bueso Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] Fs: ext4: namei: fixed file of checkpatch/pl warnings and errors Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 14:35:41 -0400 Message-ID: <1285526141.3047.0.camel@cowboy> References: <1285439521-2557-1-git-send-email-tdent48227@gmail.com> <1285439521-2557-10-git-send-email-tdent48227@gmail.com> <20100926182338.GM19690@thunk.org> Reply-To: dave@gnu.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Krzysztof Halasa , Tracey Dent , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Ted Ts'o Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100926182338.GM19690@thunk.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2010-09-26 at 14:23 -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 08:36:34AM +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > > > > BTW I wouldn't trust checkpatch so blindly. Also keep in mind checkpatch > > is only a tool and that maintainers have full authority to ignore the > > problems (or "problems") it spews. > > I'm beginning to think we need to have an entry in the kernel newbie's > FAQ warning people that the output of various scripts such as > checkpatch and get_maintainer are not authoratative, and are > hueristics intended to be supplemented by human intelligence. It would actually be quite useful to add a warning in kernelnewbies about this, some people tend to get too carried away :) Davidlohr > > - TEd > -- > 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/ >