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    > The kernel process request that _all_ contributors run their patches
    > through checkpath.pl and fix the problems.

    That's new. When and by whom was that rule been introduced? And with what
    rationale?

    Even checkpatch.pl itself says to only fix the warnings that make sense.
    This one didn't. And it has so many false positives in my experiences
    that a lot of its warnings are useless.

    So even if you require checkpatch.pl compliance it will be always
    subjective because checkpatch.pl is not always correct.

    Anyways if you care so much about space<->tabs why don't you just write
    a filter that converts spaces to tabs for incoming patches? Like it is
    traditionally done for trailing white spaces? Would be a trivial perl script.

    Bothering humans with such a silly mindless thing is beyond ridiculous.

    > The review process is the
    > same for _all_ contributors and I'm not going to add an extra Andi
    > attitude mode to it.

    I wish you guys would care more about actually broken logic in patches than just
    checkpatch.pl output. When I occasionally check git-x86 I always tend to find some
    obviously broken patch that should have been caught during review before
    merge.

    -Andi


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