Re: [PATCH] Deprecate checkpatch.pl --file

[Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>]

On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 18:53 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 08:50:33AM -0800, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > 
> > On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 17:14 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > > +if ($file) {
> > > +	print <<EOL
> > > +WARNING: Using --file mode. Please do not send patches to linux-kernel
> > > +that change whole existing files if you did not significantly change most
> > > +of the the file for other reasons anyways or just wrote the file newly
> > > +from scratch. Pure code style patches have a significant cost in a
> > > +quickly changing code base like Linux because they cause rejects
> > > +with other changes.
> > > +If you're sure you want to use whole file mode please use --file-force
> > > +EOL
> > > +;
> > > +	exit(1);
> > 
> > Can't say I like this too much .. It sounds like your telling people to
> > stop sending cleanup patches, which doesn't make much sense .. We want a
> > clean kernel .. Or at least I do ..
> 
> It is a simple pain/benefit issue.
> Fixing the 25 errors and 13 warnings in kernel/profile.c may look
> like an easy task but then we put additional burden on the 10 people
> that have patches pending for this file.

This goes for all patches on kernel/profile.c tho .. If I make a big mod
to kernel/profile.c, that will screw up anyone else who has patches for
that file..

> It is the same reason why we do not run a 'kill-trailing-whitespace'
> on the full kernel tree.

At least style clean ups at worst are file by file..

Daniel