A quick guide to why stand-alone checkpatch patches suck...

[Sudip Mukherjee]

On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:42:18PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
>> (And this sort of analysis is exactly *why* people need to apply their brains
>> when looking at checkpatch output....)
>
> No one has ever said that they shouldn't.
>
> Remember, I know _lots_ of kernel developers who started with just
> "checkpatch cleanups on staging drivers" and they moved on to much
> "higher" roles in the kernel developer ecosystem (jobs, maintainers of
> subsystems, keynote talks at conferences, etc.)
>

thats encouraging information .  :)
thanks Greg

> Don't "po po" it as something that shouldn't be a valid place to start,
> it is, and is why I do the work to review all of the many thousands of
> staging patches every release cycle.
>
> No one is forcing you to write those patches, or read / review them, so
> don't discourage others to provide them either please.  I most certainly
> do not.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
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