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

[nick]

On 14-09-17 07:53 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   what did i say? what did i just say? i wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, nick wrote:
>> On 14-09-17 07:20 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>>
>>>   and, as we've all seen, nick's other flaw is that, quite simply,
>>> he's selfish and greedy. his entire obsession is with the output
>>> of checkpatch, which means he wants to grab all the trivial
>>> cleanup (the low-hanging fruit, as it were) for himself, and not
>>> leave any for others. rather than take the time to understand the
>                           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>> code, nick wants checkpatch to do all the work for him. in the
>>> end, nick doesn't want to do any work or understand how the kernel
>>> actually works -- he just wants patches, and he wants them as
>>> quickly and cheaply as possible.
> 
>   to which nick responds (unbelievably, and confirming what i had
> just written):
> 
>> That's not what I wanted I was trying to improve my rep after
>> getting banned from vger.org and now it seems I can't even get a
>> patch right. In addition I was trying to do check patch because it
>> was easier for me due to not understanding some parts of the code.
>       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
>   i rarely have my speculation confirmed so rapidly and completely.
> 
> rday
> 
Rday,
I meant I didn't understand the code not the effect to write good solid patches and learn it.
Please read my messages more carefully.
Nick