On Wed, 2016-09-14 at 20:54 +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote: > On 09/14/2016 08:33 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > That's not true, I _WANT_ checkpatch cleanups for the portion of the > > kernel I maintain. It keeps the code correct, up to date, easier to > > maintain, and in doing so, we have found real bugs over time. > Assuming that there are others with the same opinions that means that > Joes patch is not the right solution?
The patch doesn't forbid that. It just means any checkpatch induced change outside of drivers/staging would generally be intentional and would not commonly be submitted by inexperienced developers.
