On 07/17/2014 08:34 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
checkpatch.pl is a nice tool to find issues in patches. Sadly this tool gets more and more abused by various people to create style cleanups for source files within the kernel. In order to deal with that bad habit let's remove the --file option and bring checkpatch.pl back to its original purpose.
I have a number of problems with this patch. First, 'abuse' is a relative term. It describes a use you (and possibly many others) may find objectionable, but that does not mean all uses are objectionable. Second, just because something is abused doesn't mean it would be a good idea to take it away. Many of the amendmends to the US Constitution can be abused. Should freedom of speech be taken away because it can be abused ? I hope not. Many drugs can be abused. Should they be taken away ? I hope not. And so on. Using your argument, you can take away anything that can be abused, which is pretty much everything. Not a good idea. Guenter -- 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/
