* Stefan Richter <stefanr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > We routinely mention Sparse, lockdep, Coverity, Coccinelle, kmemleak, > > ftrace, kmemcheck and other tools as well when it motives to fix a bug > > or uncleanliness. [...] It is absolutely fine to > > mention checkpatch when it catches uncleanliness in code that already > > got merged. I dont understand your point. > > I wrote "don't mention checkpatch" but I really meant "think about what > the effect of the patch is and describe this". Are you arguing that in all those other cases the tools should not be mentioned either? I dont think that position is tenable. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
