> On Jan 25, 2018, at 12:36 PM, Aaron Conole <acon...@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Because more voices of support are better - I am in favor of this
> change.
> 
> I agree with the sentiment that checkpatch is meant to help bring things
> to light that humans sometimes glaze over (we all develop our own way of
> 'reading' code - for me I just don't *see* whitespace anymore, so
> checkpatch helps me self enforce it).  I don't think I'd ever trust a
> machine, even one as snazzy as checkpatch, with true veto power over a
> change.  In that vein, this helps draw the eye to "hey there's really
> something incomplete here - perhaps it is worth taking a closer look."
> 
> Especially since I have been known to leave things behind - and having
> the checkpatch hook catch it for me early is better.
> 
> All that long winded response to simply:
> 
> Acked-by: Aaron Conole <acon...@redhat.com>

Thanks!  I pushed this to master.

> On a side note - I was really happy to see that the in-comment tracking
> worked for most of the cases I tried.  The only one that didn't catch
> is:
> 
>  /*
>   XXX : something here
>   */
> 
> but I don't think it's worth trying to solve that :)

Thanks.  The patch that initiated it had a couple variations, which made me 
work harder on it than I probably would have.  I agree that it has some room 
for improvement, though.  :-)

--Justin


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