From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] Introduce strtol_check_range()
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:02:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070731120220.62a28442.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0707312203150.28746@enigma.security.iitk.ac.in>
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:04:10 +0530 (IST)
Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org> wrote:
> [ checkpatch.pl doesn't particularly like this patch, but I wanted to be
> consistent with the rest of lib/vsprintf.c and include/linux/kernel.h. ]
I tend to think that it isn't worth being consistent with wrong stuff - it's
just more things for people to fix up one day. Yes, you introduce a mixture
of right and wrong, but that makes the wrong stand out more ;)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-31 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-31 16:34 Satyam Sharma
2007-07-31 19:02 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-08-01 5:35 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-08-01 23:46 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-08-02 0:22 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-08-02 4:25 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-08-02 10:13 ` Denis Vlasenko
2007-08-03 7:59 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-03 8:59 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-08-04 22:49 ` Alexey Dobriyan
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