Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Software evolution around “checkpatch.pl ”? | From | SF Markus Elfring <> | Date | Sat, 10 Feb 2018 19:30:15 +0100 |
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>> So I think checkpatch is striking the right balance here in >> how it warns. Obviously if it could assess the text >> and come to an informed decision that would be great but >> we are some way from that ;) > > The 'informed' bit is difficult as it is mostly a political problem.
I find such a view very interesting.
> I just wish Markus would improve his consistently terrible commit messages
I tried to achieve another clarification a few times.
> that just restate the action being done and detail > _why_ a particular thing _should_ be done.
Unfortunately, it seems that no other contributors picked corresponding opportunities up so far.
You indicated also special software development challenges in your commit “checkpatch: attempt to find unnecessary 'out of memory' messages”.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/10/382 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ebfdc40969f24fc0cdd1349835d36e8ebae05374
> His acceptance rate would improve as many of these back and forth > replies for what trivialities he posts as patches would be minimized.
My selection of change possibilities leads to mixed integration results.
I stumbled on variations for general change resistance.
Regards, Markus
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