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authorJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2025-08-15 09:52:42 -0700
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2025-08-18 17:39:32 -0700
commitab4ee77ed9bddfc1c3461b42ef4875068928d2e6 (patch)
tree44b13961acd3e488c933c303bd32434c055f548d
parentb55f7295d600b4cd487ef2e9332e30d6933be78c (diff)
docs: netdev: refine the clean-up patch examples
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. Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250815165242.124240-1-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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@@ -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)