checkpatch.pl false positive: FSF mailing address
Joe Perches
joe at perches.com
Thu Mar 10 11:25:55 PST 2016
On Thu, 2016-03-10 at 11:15 -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 11:08 AM, Joe Perches <joe at perches.com> wrote:
Hey again Brian.
> > Yeah, it's amusing. It's also likely not something worth
> > bothering with though as the likelihood of fixing it is low
> > and eventually the FSF warning will be minimized or removed
> > as no longer necessary.
> An easy improvement: don't use "ignore case" for the regex.
Maybe, but:
drivers/pcmcia/bfin_cf_pcmcia.c: * if not, write to the free software foundation,
Of course there's only one of those too.
Mostly, it's a "I just don't care very much" warning.
If you care enough to submit a patch removing the "/i"
from the regex, please do and cc Andrew Morton too.
> > checkpatch is stupid, false positives will always exist.
I'd almost rather have people understand this.
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