Re: [PATCH] x86, apic: Enable x2APIC physical when cpu < 256 native

[Borislav Petkov]

On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 02:03:51AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> checkpatch tends to be used for firs patch submissions and
> adding it would only encourage a new wave of trivial whitespace
> patches.

Nope, we definitely don't want that...

> I think there are already way, _way_ too many existing instances
> of comments that are of the form
> 	/* foo
> 	 * ...
> to add that.
> 
> There are 10s of thousands outside of net/ and drivers/net/.

... unless there's a way to detect new submissions and scream only
for those. I.e., look at lines starting with "+" which don't have
corresponding "-" lines.

This would need a bit of experimenting and is not trivial though, maybe
Algorithm::Diff could even help there.

Sounds like a mini-project for a perl dude :-)

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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