>> So I think checkpatch is striking the right balance here in >> how it warns. Obviously if it could assess the text >> and come to an informed decision that would be great but >> we are some way from that ;) > > The 'informed' bit is difficult as it is mostly a political problem. I find such a view very interesting. > I just wish Markus would improve his consistently terrible commit messages I tried to achieve another clarification a few times. > that just restate the action being done and detail > _why_ a particular thing _should_ be done. Unfortunately, it seems that no other contributors picked corresponding opportunities up so far. You indicated also special software development challenges in your commit “checkpatch: attempt to find unnecessary 'out of memory' messages”. https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/10/382 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ebfdc40969f24fc0cdd1349835d36e8ebae05374 > His acceptance rate would improve as many of these back and forth > replies for what trivialities he posts as patches would be minimized. My selection of change possibilities leads to mixed integration results. I stumbled on variations for general change resistance. Regards, Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-iio" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
