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On 09/14/2016 08:21 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-09-14 at 20:16 +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>> You know what. 
>> with some additional writing like 
>> "Existing code outside staging is not supposed to be "fixed" to match checkpatch.
>> Please do not send checkpatch initiated patches for those files"
>> near the newly created warn
> 
> That's not to my taste.
> That should be in the Documentation tree somewhere.

Fine with me. maybe in SubmitingPatches?