On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 09:00:18AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > On Sat, 2017-12-09 at 09:36 +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > > 1. Using lockdep_set_novalidate_class() for anything other > > than device->mutex will throw checkpatch warnings. Nice. (*) > [] > > (*) checkpatch.pl is considered mostly harmful round here, too, > > but that's another rant.... > > How so? Short story is that it barfs all over the slightly non-standard coding style used in XFS. It generates enough noise on incidental things we aren't important that it complicates simple things. e.g. I just moved a block of defines from one header to another, and checkpatch throws about 10 warnings on that because of whitespace. I'm just moving code - I don't want to change it and it doesn't need to be modified because it is neat and easy to read and is obviously correct. A bunch of prototypes I added another parameter to gets warnings because it uses "unsigned" for an existing parameter that I'm not changing. And so on. This sort of stuff is just lowest-common-denominator noise - great for new code and/or inexperienced developers, but not for working with large bodies of existing code with slightly non-standard conventions. Churning *lots* of code we otherwise wouldn't touch just to shut up checkpatch warnings takes time, risks regressions and makes it harder to trace the history of the code when we are trying to track down bugs. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
