Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 3 Mar 2010 16:42:02 -0800 | | From | Andrew Morton <> | | Subject | Re: linux-next requirements |
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On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 01:35:43 +0100 (CET) Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:
> As a side note: We created checkpatch.pl, to have a tool which helps > us to alert developers about stuff which is deprecated and as a > byproduct the coding style rules. I think it's a useful tool in > general, just the outcome is an utter trainwreck: > > We have hordes of whitespace, spelling and codingstyle cleanup > maniacs, while the hard stuff of replacing deprecated interfaces like > semaphore based mutexes / completions, cleaning up the BKL horror, > etc. is left to a few already overworked people who care. > > What's even worse is it that developers of new code and the > maintainers who are merging it simply ignore its existance for > whatever reasons. I can accept the whitespace argument, but I have no > grasp why deprecation warnings are ignored at will.
um, write checkpatch rules to detect new additions of deprecated features.
I take patches.
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