From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751385AbdEBQSK (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 May 2017 12:18:10 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0018.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.18]:41171 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751184AbdEBQSI (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 May 2017 12:18:08 -0400 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 30,2,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:421:541:599:967:973:988:989:1260:1263:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1539:1568:1593:1594:1711:1714:1730:1747:1777:1792:2393:2525:2561:2564:2682:2685:2828:2859:2933:2937:2939:2942:2945:2947:2951:2954:3022:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3622:3865:3866:3867:3868:3870:3871:3873:3874:3934:3936:3938:3941:3944:3947:3950:3953:3956:3959:4321:5007:6117:7875:7903:8599:9025:9388:10010:10049:10400:10450:10455:10848:11232:11658:11914:12043:12050:12555:12740:12760:12776:12895:13069:13311:13357:13439:14107:14181:14659:14849:19904:19999:21080:21433:21611:21627:30041:30051:30054:30091,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:1:0,LFtime:3,LUA_SUMMARY:none X-HE-Tag: bun54_8082091640429 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 1437 Message-ID: <1493741881.22125.6.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: LKML: "Fixes as per checkpatch.pl" patches From: Joe Perches To: Ali Kaasinen Cc: LKML Date: Tue, 02 May 2017 09:18:01 -0700 In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.22.6-1ubuntu1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2017-05-02 at 18:08 +0300, Ali Kaasinen wrote: > Hellooo, presumably contacted the right people. > > I often browse LKML, and patches saying "Fix style issues as reported by > checkpatch.pl", and Greg responding "That's really vague, you need to be > specific, and only fix one type of thing per patch" seem fairly common > these days, e.g.: > > - http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1704.3/01867.html > > - http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1705.0/00105.html > > Just wondering, shouldn't checkpatch mention that? This question should be asked while cc'ing lkml. What Greg does with patches is up to Greg. A checkpatch user guide in Documentation could be useful.