From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761458AbYCYXKL (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:10:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760795AbYCYXJS (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:09:18 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:46156 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760777AbYCYXJR (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:09:17 -0400 Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:09:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080325.160916.182495221.davem@davemloft.net> To: mingo@elte.hu Cc: jirislaby@gmail.com, viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk, joe@perches.com, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 109/148] include/asm-x86/serial.h: checkpatch cleanups - formatting only From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20080325131708.GB9612@elte.hu> References: <20080325084457.GA32103@elte.hu> <20080325.024204.175042056.davem@davemloft.net> <20080325131708.GB9612@elte.hu> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Ingo Molnar Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:17:08 +0100 > There can be fluctuations and artifacts, and obviously this is just > another (arbitrary) static metric that has no forced relationship with > real code quality - but in my experience it's surprisingly close to > reality - closer than any other code metric i've seen. And yet you used it to claim that the sparc64 port is an unmaintainable pile of poo. Thanks but no thanks, you just proved even more to me why checkpatch is crap.