Re: [PATCH v4 72/73] xfs: Convert mru cache to XArray

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On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 02:12:28PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-12-12 at 08:43 +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 09:00:18AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2017-12-09 at 09:36 +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > > 	1. Using lockdep_set_novalidate_class() for anything other
> > > > 	than device->mutex will throw checkpatch warnings. Nice. (*)
> > > []
> > > > (*) checkpatch.pl is considered mostly harmful round here, too,
> > > > but that's another rant....
> > > 
> > > How so?
> > 
> > Short story is that it barfs all over the slightly non-standard
> > coding style used in XFS.
> []
> > This sort of stuff is just lowest-common-denominator noise - great
> > for new code and/or inexperienced developers, but not for working
> > with large bodies of existing code with slightly non-standard
> > conventions.
> 
> Completely reasonable.  Thanks.
> 
> Do you get many checkpatch submitters for fs/xfs?

We used to. Not recently, though.

Cheers,

Dave.
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