On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 11:32 -0400, Jason Cooper wrote: Hi Jason. > > But bugfix backports haven't been much of an issue in > > other subsystems with fairly active whitespace/style > > changes. > > Most of the mvebu fixes we've had that failed to apply were generally > due to a large whitespace change (dts node shuffling, admittedly not > checkpatch-related). So not due to this. > I've also frequently been stymied by code cleanups > when using git blame to find the commit introducing a regression. git blame -w can frequently help there. > So, my general rule is: If you're submitting a patch to make checkpatch > be quiet, re-assess the need. If you're making changes and you can fix > some checkpatch items while you're there, then do so. Decent rule. > There are certainly legitimate checkpatch-only patches, I just don't > think this is one qualifies. Of course it's the maintainer's choice (and last I saw, that's you) to ignore whatever doesn't fit the appropriate vision for the code. $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/irqchip/irq-crossbar.c Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:IRQCHIP DRIVERS) Jason Cooper <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (maintainer:IRQCHIP DRIVERS) ... cheers, Joe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
