From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B9EFE2E5D3D; Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:52:44 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1755276764; cv=none; b=hCebaeJmaeVUVD/Zq0T7rpIvDFBy5psaHotsTk8Ez5BmTr6eCCqzQAiazFtpKTJP35DpVN8MoUlJusOOPZKy7paSEf3YfAT0AhA3e8q3oNQr3s9HFcTefgtF1sL4NFiAOOSX3zwgEeiWnTMJ2qBtXLcpSlX2TuFXG8skBMg8fTM= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1755276764; c=relaxed/simple; bh=px70tUu1Tgeq0g5c7/3dmPg2hkPKkukCFcKL6UVjVFo=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:MIME-Version; b=DY76q7PjqX9XESsCzPero4GnrBgstmO89OrsMEaggA/3KFxB6B+F92cTFP51c27FeVW0qajLvvdakTSxSqmuqZuSdXu+LiV29BBrci20KuVSAQIU12nDmRmdCrj5QdC17vDHDi4pdRdrnUqpPESQAm+Gd+bnD5ryeXPIyV0l0/o= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b=ORD7Lum/; arc=none smtp.client-ip=10.30.226.201 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=kernel.org header.i=@kernel.org header.b="ORD7Lum/" Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2B36BC4CEF5; Fri, 15 Aug 2025 16:52:44 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1755276764; bh=px70tUu1Tgeq0g5c7/3dmPg2hkPKkukCFcKL6UVjVFo=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:From; b=ORD7Lum/sDduLDefCzPSAY4OObgc5lvjpjsd996bnSirpeDGVPKXmCZAG/hXjiEt5 6cYvlogSt/jOmJfUbz+LeYQtxzlgR7VTdFGB3Iz9ctCu0EtE0zPDHiIOKy7roOFjln Wj+VUnKVektevJT10CMrByaJst7Bo9bwqYjLuHZ/ZduTysSvw+Ts4s7nBSaQZqqoIS iltmOiza6lXpjWluHI89NELHytnAQFarY7U0m+5XrQF/TKZvY/zjHTbpx5gVhsR4BN URZCYmau0eIs6Gqw6FpfKxRRzNfU+bHg7ey/Zo4VyFO3F5ubt1cxpYjevnDD/NDQES xqIf0OZ28hPIw== From: Jakub Kicinski To: davem@davemloft.net Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, edumazet@google.com, pabeni@redhat.com, andrew+netdev@lunn.ch, horms@kernel.org, Jakub Kicinski , 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 Message-ID: <20250815165242.124240-1-kuba@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.50.1 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 --- 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` issues * Conversions to device-managed APIs (``devm_`` helpers) -- 2.50.1