From: James Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com>
To: sunran001@208suo.com, hare@suse.com, martin.petersen@oracle.co
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scsi: aic7xxx: avoid checkpatch error
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 07:23:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <564d19fcd79afb957f301ef50ab5601280488798.camel@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4d48377ca4e62a71f89e4de6f80e6725@208suo.com>
On Thu, 2023-07-20 at 17:57 +0800, sunran001@208suo.com wrote:
> ERROR: do not initialise statics to NULL
We don't accept checkpatch fixes on drivers, particularly not old ones.
The reason is very simple: checkpatch keeps updating, so they would
cause endless churn and a vastly increased risk of introducing bugs
into older drivers. Checkpatch.pl as the name implies is for checking
patches only.
James
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-07-20 11:25 UTC|newest]
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2023-07-20 9:57 ` sunran001
2023-07-20 11:23 ` James Bottomley [this message]
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