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Subject: RE: two false alarms from checkpatch.pl
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 16:28 -0700, Jian Peng wrote:
> On the other hand, 
> while (1); 
> is a style that was used universally by C programmers. Could you rethink about take this as exception in checkpatch.pl?

For some subset of C programmers... ;)

The kernel generally uses "unreachable()" instead.