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From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
To: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] checkpatch/Codingstyle and trivial patch spam
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 12:45:20 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160913194520.GA8071@cloud> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b72e9a2e-64d4-12af-1af3-adf963151466@de.ibm.com>

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 08:58:49PM +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> 3. CodingStyle seems to get changes which have no ACK or Reviewed-by that seem
> to be controversial.  e.g.
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/Documentation/CodingStyle?id=865a1caa4b6b886babdd9d67e7c3608be4567a51
> suggested to indent labels with a space, and was then immediately followed by
> patches. Is there a process in place to verify and challenge such changes?

Ideally, that should come up during review of the CodingStyle patch.
Changes shouldn't go into CodingStyle except to document existing
process and unwritten rules, or to document the results of a discussion
and consensus.  That particular change to CodingStyle should have been
rejected, and should be reverted.

- Josh Triplett

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-09-13 19:45 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 [this message]
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
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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