From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF037C433E1 for ; Sun, 26 Jul 2020 16:42:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6E7C204EA for ; Sun, 26 Jul 2020 16:42:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727050AbgGZQmK (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Jul 2020 12:42:10 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0224.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.224]:33386 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726117AbgGZQmK (ORCPT ); Sun, 26 Jul 2020 12:42:10 -0400 Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (clb03-v110.bra.tucows.net [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay03.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34F57837F24A; Sun, 26 Jul 2020 16:42:09 +0000 (UTC) X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-HE-Tag: bait17_2e011d426f5a X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 1933 Received: from XPS-9350.home (unknown [47.151.133.149]) (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf11.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Sun, 26 Jul 2020 16:42:07 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <5f5679b4c76bf0e16064f3a45319bc35938ad96b.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: checkpatch: support deprecated terms checking From: Joe Perches To: SeongJae Park Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?Micha=C5=82_Miros=C5=82aw?= , SeongJae Park , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apw@canonical.com, colin.king@canonical.com, jslaby@suse.cz, pavel@ucw.cz, SeongJae Park Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2020 09:42:06 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20200726153601.13855-1-sj38.park@gmail.com> References: <20200726153601.13855-1-sj38.park@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" User-Agent: Evolution 3.36.3-0ubuntu1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 2020-07-26 at 17:36 +0200, SeongJae Park wrote: > On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 07:50:54 -0700 Joe Perches wrote: [] > > I do not want to encourage relatively inexperienced people > > to run checkpatch and submit inappropriate patches. > > Me, neither. But, I think providing more warnings and references is better for > that. Unfortunately, the inexperienced _do_ in fact run checkpatch on files and submit inappropriate patches. It's generally a time sink for the experienced maintainers to reply. > Simply limiting checks could allow people submitting inappropriate patches > intorducing new uses of deprecated terms. Tradeoffs... I expect that patches being reviewed by maintainers are preferred over files being inappropriately changed by the inexperienced. Those inappropriate changes should not be encouraged by tools placed in the hands of the inexperienced.