Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [PATCH] checkpatch: Add comment aboutupdating Documentation/CodingStyle

[Josh Triplett]

On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 09:50:23PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > There are many checkpatch rules (like semicolons) that
> > > are not in CodingStyle.
> > 
> > It's a rule of thumb, not a mandate.  In *general*, checkpatch.pl should
> > not be enforcing style rules that aren't documented in CodingStyle.
> 
> Except that it becomes a mandate when someone runs it automatically against
> every one of your patches and then sends you an email for each patch it finds
> a checkpatch niggle against...

I think we're talking about two different things.  I wasn't talking
about checkpatch.pl itself; I was talking about the idea that every
style rule in checkpatch.pl should corresponding documentation in
CodingStyle.  That's what I was calling a rule of thumb rather than a
mandate.

- Josh triplett
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