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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	Lorenz Haspel <lorenz@badgers.com>,
	devel@linuxdriverproject.org, puff65537@bansheeslibrary.com,
	viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
	michael.banken@mathe.stud.uni-erlangen.de,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@i4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4 v2] silicom: checkpatch: errors caused by macros
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:36:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1371523003.2088.4.camel@joe-AO722> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130617211418.GA3219@kroah.com>

On Mon, 2013-06-17 at 14:14 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 02:03:43PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Generally I think it's better that new submitters patches
> > should go through more strict reviews and be as correct
> > as possible.  I think this is especially true for patches
> > that are just checkpatch driven.
> 
> I totally disagree, sorry.

I'm unsurprised.  We have different tastes.

While whitespace only cleanup patches have some use,
for these types of patches, I'm more interested in
educating others what sorts of patches have higher
value.

o defects
o style/readability
o whitespace

As always, ymmv.


  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-18  2:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-17 16:26 [PATCH 1/4] silicom: checkpatch: assignments in if conditions Lorenz Haspel
2013-06-17 16:26 ` [PATCH 2/4] silicom: checkpatch: fixed whitespace errors Lorenz Haspel
2013-06-17 16:26 ` [PATCH 3/4] silicom: checkpatch: trailing statements Lorenz Haspel
2013-06-17 16:26 ` [PATCH 4/4] solicom: checkpatch: added parenthesis to macros Lorenz Haspel
2013-06-17 16:35   ` Joe Perches
2013-06-17 19:20   ` [PATCH 4/4 v2] silicom: checkpatch: errors caused by macros Lorenz Haspel
2013-06-17 19:42     ` Joe Perches
2013-06-17 20:49       ` Dan Carpenter
2013-06-17 21:03         ` Joe Perches
2013-06-17 21:14           ` Greg KH
2013-06-18  2:36             ` Joe Perches [this message]
2013-06-17 17:03 ` [PATCH 1/4] silicom: checkpatch: assignments in if conditions Dan Carpenter
     [not found]   ` <CAJ8yRxJf+B0Pgr9YWWeTbSfRZd21tF7H4j7sO-exvRXzsJYbvA@mail.gmail.com>
2013-06-17 17:25     ` Dan Carpenter
2013-06-17 17:22 ` Dan Carpenter
2013-06-17 17:34   ` Dan Carpenter
2013-06-17 17:42   ` Joe Perches
2013-06-17 19:15 ` [PATCH 1/4 v2] " Lorenz Haspel
2013-06-17 21:23   ` Dan Carpenter
2013-06-18 16:28   ` [PATCH 1/4 v3] " Lorenz Haspel
2013-06-18 18:32     ` Dan Carpenter
2013-06-18 18:32     ` Greg KH
2013-06-19  8:43       ` [PATCH 1/2 v2] silicom: checkpatch: errors caused by macros Lorenz Haspel
2013-06-19  8:44       ` [PATCH 2/2 v3] silicom: checkpatch: assignments in if conditions Lorenz Haspel
2013-06-24 23:14         ` Greg KH
2013-06-26  8:24           ` Lorenz Kernel

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