On Fri, Oct 03, 2014 at 07:22:27AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Fri, 2014-10-03 at 12:35 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > Most people sending checkpatch.pl fixes don't know how to verify the > > alignment. This checkpatch warning just encourages newbies to try > > introduce bugs. Patch submitters tell us that they just sed the code > > and it's the job for the maintainer to check that it's correct. > > I haven't seen many instances of bad patch submittals > on netdev. Is this mostly an issue for staging? I don't follow netdev so I can't say. Most of the time data is aligned at a 4 byte mark so probably you are just getting lucky. I really doubt that netdev checkpatch newbies know about alignment... > > Maybe a downgrade to CHK requiring --strict is OK. I would actually like to turn --strict by default in staging. Checkpatch is a good concept, but it should only do safe things instead of telling newbies to send buggy patches. regards, dan carpenter -- 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
