Re: [PATCH] scsi: megaraid: cleanup formatting of megaraid

[Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>]

On 1/28/22 11:37 AM, Tom Rix wrote:
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> On 1/28/22 11:11 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
>> On Fri, 2022-01-28 at 09:59 -0800, Tom Rix wrote:
>>> On 1/28/22 9:42 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>>>> On 1/27/22 07:19, trix@redhat.com wrote:
>>>>> From: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
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>>>>> checkpatch reports several hundred formatting errors.
>>>>> Run these files through clang-format and knock off
>>>>> some of them.
>>>> Isn't this the kind of patches that carries more risk than value?
>> Risk for whitespace style reformatting patches is quite low.
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>> Nominally, clang-format changes should not produce a different
>> compiled object file unless __LINE__/__DATE__/__TIME__ style
>> changes occur.
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>> If it does, the clang-format tool is broken.
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>>>> Additionally, this patch conflicts with a patch series that I plan to
>>>> post soon.
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>>> Long term, it would be good have a reliable way to automatically fix
>>> either new files or really broken old files.
>> That's really a maintainer preference no?
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>> Especially so for any automation.
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> In practice everything is up to the maintainer.
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> If some maintainer wants fix their formatting then clang-format should 
> just work
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> It isn't likely they will have time to hand fix every file.

A follow up issue in the clang project has been raised by Konrad, here

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/54137

Tom


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