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Greg summed it up pretty well, e.g. [1], [2]. > > > With regard to this specific patch: > > On Wed, Sep 03, 2025 at 03:20:15PM +0300, Erick Karanja wrote: >> Convert manual lock/unlock calls to guard and tidy up the code. > > The very first sentence under "Describe your changes" > in submitting-patches.rst is: "Describe your problem." > > So, what problem is being addressed by this patch? > >> Generated-by: Coccinelle SmPL >> Signed-off-by: Erick Karanja > > Coccinelle is a powerful tool, but ultimately somebody has to take > responsibility for the correctness of the output. How have you > verified that the result is correct? > > Also, this is a lot of diffstat for what is really just a change of > coding style that fixes nothing (or at least, you don't claim that it > fixes anything). > > While all contributions are welcome, they do need to deliver a net > benefit. Well said. Thanks Dave. > > I can't speak for the maintainers, but given the pain that they would > likely have fixing up all the merge conflicts that this patch would > cause, I think that the benefit would need to be substantial. There just happened to be a similar change suggested for SGX that provides insight into x86 maintainers' view that I fully agree with: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/d9a76e90-7723-49ee-b3ec-85c7533d8023@intel.com/ > > > If you found actual bugs as part of this process, then that would > definitely be worth looking at (?) ack. Reinette