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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] checkpatch/Codingstyle and trivial patch spam
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 23:43:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1473835402.32273.23.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1609140830550.3395@hadrien>

On Wed, 2016-09-14 at 08:35 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Sep 2016, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Wed, 2016-09-14 at 07:57 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > > What types of changes are unacceptable?
> >
> > It's a mixed bag.
> >
> > Some maintainers reject all "style/whitespace changes".
> > Some maintainers reject global consistency patches like
> > int -> bool conversions.
> > Some maintainers reject literal -> #define changes like
> > 1 -> true and 0 -> false for booleans.
> >
> > Some of those maintainers are IMO misguided.
> Sorry, I just meant that you said that the section should list the kinds
> of changes that are acceptable.  But it seems more feasible to say what
> kinds of changes are not acceptable.  Then one would need a standardized
> language for describing what those unacceptable changes are.
> julia
> 

<shrug>

Is there really a difference in whatever grammar would be
necessary between what's acceptable and what's not acceptable?

It's still a classification problem.

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-14  6:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-13 18:58 Christian Borntraeger
2016-09-13 19:18 ` Joe Perches
2016-09-13 19:45 ` Josh Triplett
2016-09-13 20:03   ` Jonathan Corbet
2016-09-13 22:14     ` Joe Perches
2016-09-14  5:29       ` Julia Lawall
2016-09-13 23:49     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2016-09-14  2:03       ` Josh Triplett
2016-09-14  2:24         ` Joe Perches
2016-09-14  5:57           ` Julia Lawall
2016-09-14  6:27             ` Joe Perches
2016-09-14  6:35               ` Julia Lawall
2016-09-14  6:43                 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2016-09-14 17:11               ` Alexandre Belloni
2016-09-15 16:33                 ` Jonathan Cameron
2016-09-14 11:54           ` Greg KH
2016-09-14 14:23             ` Joe Perches
2016-09-14 14:32               ` Greg KH
2016-09-14 14:35                 ` Julia Lawall
2016-09-14 14:39                   ` Theodore Ts'o
2016-09-14 19:26                     ` Julia Lawall
2016-09-14 14:51                   ` Joe Perches
2016-09-14 19:30                     ` Julia Lawall
2016-09-14 14:51                 ` Joe Perches
2016-09-14 14:45               ` Guenter Roeck
2016-09-14 15:13                 ` Joe Perches
2016-09-14 19:46                   ` Guenter Roeck
2016-09-14 18:04       ` Eric W. Biederman

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