Hi Jason, On Thursday 12 June 2014 09:35 PM, Joe Perches wrote: > 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) Ok, if this is not qualifying as a separate patch then i will merge this with other patches in the series which touch them. Regards, Sricharan -- 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
