Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Question -- as a matter of policy, is the goal to have a completely >> clean checkpatch run? I get that there should be no ERRORs, but >> WARNINGs/CHECKs are not considered fatal for a reason, right? > > No. It's just a guideline. As far as I'm concerned, > ignore every checkpatch message you don't agree with. BTW, I think this is becoming a major problem. I have had discussions with various people who consider checkpatch as some sort of automatic upstream compliance system. I'm a bit worried about that. People should consider just as a tool next to other tools, not as the holy bible. Joe, when working with checkpatch documentation you could try to emphasise that part (or it might be that you have already done that). Just my 0.02 EUR. -- Kalle Valo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
