Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Remove --file option

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2014-07-18 at 16:49 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 07:35:26AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Using the one-liner above also makes it harder to
> > automate checkpatch neatening and avoid using Lindent:
> 
> automated checkpatch?? More idiocy... we want less, in case you've
> forgotten.

"we" is a subset of "all of us".

> <snip more pointless justification attempts>

Those are not at all pointless if you intend to fix
any issue found by the tool.

I think your viewpoint is a bit tainted as you're the
same guy that wrote "fuck readability".

https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/11/19/116

> It is about time people understood that and dropped the senseless frenzy
> of creating patches with less time spent on thinking about them than
> preparing them.

I suggest you try writing some documentation
patches instead of acrid emails.

cheers, Joe

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