On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 06:00 +0100, Al Viro wrote: > It's not you, it's checkpatch.pl plus the fairly common tendency to give > that thing a lot more respect than it deserves... > > Basically, it's OK as a tool that draws ones attention to a subset of > code that might or might not be worth looking at; it gives both false > positives and false negatives and as long as there's not too much of those, > it's useful. Provided that it does *not* replace one's taste. I.e. "hey, > it points to these lines; let's take a look, some of those might be > worth some attention", rather than "The Most Holy Oracle Has Spoken; > Do What It Says".
Just so. -- 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/
