On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 09:30:38PM -0700, daniel watson wrote: > > If this is a false positive from checkpatch, I can submit it as an > example to the checkpatch maintainers. Do you think I should? checkpatch is a perl script that does pattern matching, it is really hard for it to determine for things like this specific example, that it is not needed. Try finding other valid checkpatch cleanups if you wish to contribute in this way, there are loads of others under drivers/staging/ that should be easy to find. thanks, greg k-h
