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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/5] checkpatch: add a blacklist
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On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 12:17 +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com> writes:
>
> > This thread is specifically about checkpatch errors .. checkpatch
> > warnings can be ignored, but errors you can't usually ignore..
>
> Of course I can and do :-)
>
> > If your
> > ignoring errors then either checkpatch is producing bogus output that
> > needs to be corrected, or it's something you really should fix..
>
> Neither.
> But unfortunately I don't have examples handy.
>
> My POV must be a bit different: I treat errors like another class of
> warnings (perhaps more important that "mere" warnings but still not
> authoritative).

>From my perspective Documentation/SubmittingPatches really dictates what
you should be doing with checkpatch, since that was signed off on by
Andy (on this thread) and Linus .. In that document I think checkpatch
is given authority, rather than what your suggesting where it's just
something you can use or not, and ignore or not like it has no meaning
at all..

Daniel



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