[ofa-general] Re: Merging of completely unreviewed drivers

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 01:33:03AM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 01:14:55PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Quite frankly, I've several times been *this* close (holds up fingers so 
> > you can't even see between them) to just remove checkpatch entirely.
> 
> Agrh! What stopped you?!
> 
> > I'm personally of the opinion that a lot of checkpatch "fixes" are 
> > anything but. That mainly concerns fixing overlong lines (where the 
> > "fixed" version is usually worse than the original), but it's been true 
> > for some other warnings too.
> 
> Speaking of driver, could authors please comment all those barrier()
> calls and remove trailing "return;" at the end of void functions.

Why don't you make a patch to checkpatch.pl for those types of things?
:)