On Sun, 2010-09-26 at 14:23 -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Sun, Sep 26, 2010 at 08:36:34AM +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > > > > BTW I wouldn't trust checkpatch so blindly. Also keep in mind checkpatch > > is only a tool and that maintainers have full authority to ignore the > > problems (or "problems") it spews. > > I'm beginning to think we need to have an entry in the kernel newbie's > FAQ warning people that the output of various scripts such as > checkpatch and get_maintainer are not authoratative, and are > hueristics intended to be supplemented by human intelligence. It would actually be quite useful to add a warning in kernelnewbies about this, some people tend to get too carried away :) Davidlohr > > - TEd > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
