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

[Fengguang Wu]

On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 05:47:54PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 08:39 +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 02:11:36PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> []
> > > Fengguang Wu's very useful build robot
> > > sends out emails on build failures.
> > > I think that's great.
> > 
> > Thanks! Yes I'm now running checkpatch these days because some people
> > suggested to me that some of the checkpatch warnings do help catch
> > real bugs.
> 
> Hi Fengguang.
> 
> I see, I don't recall receiving one of these so
> it must be working just fine.

Hi Joe!

Log shows that one of your patch being checked earlier today:

[4 days ago, Joe Perches] perf: Convert kmalloc_node(...GFP_ZERO...) to kzalloc_node()

If you have more patches in some git tree that missed the check,
please let me know.

> > However I do try to avoid upsetting people with maybe-subjective
> > warnings. A checkpatch report will only be sent when a small fraction
> > of error types are detected. Comments are very welcome on how to
> > improve this list:
> 
> Your list seems reasonable.
> 
> I might add:
> 
> DOS_LINE_ENDINGS
> MODIFIED_INCLUDE_ASM
> JIFFIES_COMPARISON
> ONE_SEMICOLON

Yeah they all look good to have. Thanks for the suggestions again!

Thanks,
Fengguang
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