[PATCH V2 08/19] irqchip: crossbar: fix checkpatch warning
Sricharan R
r.sricharan at ti.com
Thu Jun 12 23:30:31 PDT 2014
Hi Jason,
On Thursday 12 June 2014 09:35 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 11:32 -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:
>
> Hi Jason.
>
>>> But bugfix backports haven't been much of an issue in
>>> other subsystems with fairly active whitespace/style
>>> changes.
>>
>> Most of the mvebu fixes we've had that failed to apply were generally
>> due to a large whitespace change (dts node shuffling, admittedly not
>> checkpatch-related).
>
> So not due to this.
>
>> I've also frequently been stymied by code cleanups
>> when using git blame to find the commit introducing a regression.
>
> git blame -w can frequently help there.
>
>> So, my general rule is: If you're submitting a patch to make checkpatch
>> be quiet, re-assess the need. If you're making changes and you can fix
>> some checkpatch items while you're there, then do so.
>
> Decent rule.
>
>> There are certainly legitimate checkpatch-only patches, I just don't
>> think this is one qualifies.
>
> Of course it's the maintainer's choice (and last I saw,
> that's you) to ignore whatever doesn't fit the appropriate
> vision for the code.
>
> $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/irqchip/irq-crossbar.c
> Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de> (maintainer:IRQCHIP DRIVERS)
> Jason Cooper <jason at lakedaemon.net> (maintainer:IRQCHIP DRIVERS)
Ok, if this is not qualifying as a separate patch then i will merge
this with other patches in the series which touch them.
Regards,
Sricharan
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