Re: [PATCH -mm] Introduce strtol_check_range()

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Jul 31 2007 - 15:03:19 EST


On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:04:10 +0530 (IST)
Satyam Sharma <satyam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> [ checkpatch.pl doesn't particularly like this patch, but I wanted to be
> consistent with the rest of lib/vsprintf.c and include/linux/kernel.h. ]

I tend to think that it isn't worth being consistent with wrong stuff - it's
just more things for people to fix up one day. Yes, you introduce a mixture
of right and wrong, but that makes the wrong stand out more ;)
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