Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Jul 2014 07:43:57 -0700 | From | Guenter Roeck <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Remove --file option |
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On 07/18/2014 07:27 AM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 07:21:14AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> Or he could just use the existing -f flag. > > If you mean the -f flag to checkpatch, he's removing them both. > Two different 'he'.
>> I really don't understand why you're trying to educate people by >> taking their toy away. They'll find another one in no time anyway. > > Maybe we should stop accepting patches created from running > checkpatch...? >
Thinking about it, Linux itself can be abused as well. We should take it away to prevent that abuse from happening. That would solve your checkpatch problem quite nicely and forever.
Guenter
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