Please do not generate patches purely based on checkpatch.

Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
Sun Jul 26 15:32:11 EDT 2015


On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 13:05:37 +0530, Yogesh Chaudhari said:

> However, is there a place which documents which maintainers(and/or
> sub-systems) accept checkpatch(or other cleanup related) patches and
> who will reject them outright? Wouldn't it be good to have this
> documented, especially given that using the checkpatch is advised in
> Documentation/SubmitChecklist?

Try something like 'git log drivers/net/wireless/whateverdev' (or
whatever part of the tree you're looking at, and see if there have been
previous checkpatch fixes in that part of the tree.
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