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SubjectRe: [Ksummit-discuss] checkkpatch (in)sanity ?
On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 10:06:18PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> I would like a couple changes which you know already:
>
> 1) Get rid of PREFER_ETHER_ADDR_COPY and similar because the people who
> send checkpatch.pl fixes aren't qualified to say when it's legal or not
> so they sometimes introduce bugs.

I do think we should have *something* that catches such things.
Perhaps not checkpatch.pl, though. Perhaps a compiler plugin that
generates additional warnings, and can perhaps use more global
information to determine legality?

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