On Mon, Sep 02, 2013 at 09:50:23PM +0100, David Howells wrote: > Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
