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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 21:23:22 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Find CamelCase definitions of
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On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 01:03:52PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 21:54:49 +0200 Alexander Holler <holler@ahsoftware.de> wrote:
> 
> > Am 25.09.2013 21:48, schrieb Joe Perches:
> > 
> > > As I've said multiple times, checkpatch is a stupid
> > > little tool that can be ignored by anyone with
> > > different tastes.
> > 
> > Just that this isn't true for ordinary innocent people posting patches.
> 
> Nobody uses --strict.  Discussion is silly.

That it is, but you are mistaken about nobody using --strict; I've been
amused a while ago by a patch (duly forwarded to Dave Null for processing,
of course) that "fixed" something like goto Efault, in I don't remember
which file ;-)