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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: davem@davemloft.net
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com,
	andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, horms@kernel.org,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	corbet@lwn.net, workflows@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH net-next] docs: netdev: refine the clean-up patch examples
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2025 09:52:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250815165242.124240-1-kuba@kernel.org> (raw)

We discourage sending trivial patches to clean up checkpatch warnings.
There are other tools which lead to patches of similarly low value
like some coccicheck warnings. The warnings are useful for new code
but fixing them in the existing code base is a waste of review time.

Broaden the example given in the doc a little bit.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
---
CC: corbet@lwn.net
CC: workflows@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
---
 Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst b/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst
index e1755610b4bc..989192421cc9 100644
--- a/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst
+++ b/Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst
@@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ Clean-up patches
 Netdev discourages patches which perform simple clean-ups, which are not in
 the context of other work. For example:
 
-* Addressing ``checkpatch.pl`` warnings
+* Addressing ``checkpatch.pl``, and other trivial coding style warnings
 * Addressing :ref:`Local variable ordering<rcs>` issues
 * Conversions to device-managed APIs (``devm_`` helpers)
 
-- 
2.50.1


             reply	other threads:[~2025-08-15 16:52 UTC|newest]

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2025-08-15 16:52 Jakub Kicinski [this message]
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