From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B0BDB904 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2016 06:35:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr (mail2-relais-roc.national.inria.fr [192.134.164.83]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 81658125 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2016 06:35:14 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 08:35:11 +0200 (CEST) From: Julia Lawall To: Joe Perches In-Reply-To: <1473834432.32273.21.camel@perches.com> Message-ID: References: <20160913194520.GA8071@cloud> <20160913140322.3ccad27c@lwn.net> <4691924.fimvUkKjuv@vostro.rjw.lan> <20160914020332.GA9558@cloud> <1473819862.32273.16.camel@perches.com> <1473834432.32273.21.camel@perches.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: ksummit-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org, ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] checkpatch/Codingstyle and trivial patch spam List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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