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

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Feb 21 2008 14:43, Greg KH wrote:
>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?
>:)

checkpatch would never allow a patch to patch checkpatch.