From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9746822A4D6 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:10:34 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1761919834; cv=none; b=b73HZ74GU6j62E3jKgYMyQu54DVpwEnnRZxDJn+irSJ6bQdG7r8VyslDc8bNj/yWWr4G4kG2WZnyKdXO9WnxyTxmyJd4bhocrXugbrlq4EqkWGVeQe+tA+PrBQins+JSXuFN/TYFGvaCwc2djJKLIkufjHWqdIbkBqJkFllbLSQ= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1761919834; c=relaxed/simple; bh=0B0L8Lq+i3gAWgbniEZql6RTQ0bjsRjHlxIl+KdSv88=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=AnIjnxdAPNaaIGZ9Tjp48f70ijre1fyp9dE5QGWM6djpnHz/2JjTMskKAycyQlcNMOr9rIJKI/tQ5mFJ4Is35/qqCrdYQ/kGRJHDGGo2ApvKUevXJ6AJCawKn7RNhBkr8ZYVab7+/db0MHAHbGlZSSjy0VQskokITjp/X+AGng0= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=S7xchXRP; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="S7xchXRP" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 31EE0C4CEE7; Fri, 31 Oct 2025 14:10:34 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1761919834; bh=0B0L8Lq+i3gAWgbniEZql6RTQ0bjsRjHlxIl+KdSv88=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=S7xchXRPtpFVO6T5D1JkSCcM8nKEjLjXwzEU4leQME3MsMInJJw6zd6fOCErOKUsG YfermksGty5JVvBmJZmaL2xNFYRjtqkzdhgXU738RA1/sv1zFMguePq66wiDa/xPha xsgriSUfZu4RP7srKln19T5tVvg8gYKqjTZ60cMKLjA206r32Ck8uZxSve+n8w4PIX sfjlPeON1/LDLClqAGDkPjHP/lIT8BPfvd3cqwUmQ9//4/RjniZHPOcxY6cD8yptuq z4QdDVLdttG4S520vKc+kYKj0DD1k5K1lPd7PMfiIqCmD59Ef69YzQpvH4y5+Btwyq vYRJSy1Nk1V3A== Received: from johan by xi.lan with local (Exim 4.98.2) (envelope-from ) id 1vEppz-000000007uC-1bOJ; Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:10:43 +0100 Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:10:43 +0100 From: Johan Hovold To: Gal Pressman Cc: Julia Lawall , Nicolas Palix , Jakub Kicinski , Alexei Lazar , Simon Horman , cocci@inria.fr, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "scripts/coccinelle: Find PTR_ERR() to %pe candidates" Message-ID: References: <20251029132922.17329-1-johan@kernel.org> <826f2fdb-bad8-44f4-8c8e-9353c3de73cd@nvidia.com> <3b04f763-aaba-41ee-a81f-94195043fd4b@nvidia.com> <9c32fa45-2b8f-4005-94cd-a9755981cff5@nvidia.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9c32fa45-2b8f-4005-94cd-a9755981cff5@nvidia.com> On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 04:36:46PM +0200, Gal Pressman wrote: > On 30/10/2025 16:06, Johan Hovold wrote: > > It still generates noise and extra work for already overworked > > maintainers that would need to explain over and over again why they are > > rejecting patches that appears to fix "warnings". Some will just take > > the patches, which leads to inconsistencies (as only a handful of > > printks will be converted) and a push for a style which again only some > > people prefer. > > There's the subsystem maintainer "rules" documentation in > Documentation/process/maintainer-*.rst which can document these kinds of > stuff. There's already too many rules in there and I guess not many people actually read it so that doesn't really scale. Johan