Am 18.07.2014 15:37, schrieb Guenter Roeck: > On 07/18/2014 01:23 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 12:29:37AM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote: >>> 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. >> >> Do you actually have a valid use case for keeping the cmdline switch ... >> > > I find it convenient to be able to check a new file before committing it > and creating a patch. Also, I find it convenient to be able use it to clean > up a file before I do heavy lifting with it. Yes, I understand the latter > is discouraged nowadays, and I would not use it anymore outside my scope > of responsibility unless specifically asked by the maintainer to do so, > but in such cases it helps me a lot to be able to address the cleanup > prior to the heavy lifting.
As capable kernel hacker you can still use a command like: diff -urN /dev/null $file | ./scripts/checkpatch.pl - Thanks, //richard -- 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/
