https://lwn.net/Articles/407137/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "Quotes of the week". en-us Mon, 13 Oct 2025 22:12:30 +0000 Mon, 13 Oct 2025 22:12:30 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lwn@lwn.net https://lwn.net/Articles/407834/ https://lwn.net/Articles/407834/ iabervon <div class="FormattedComment"> The thing I'd like is if checkpatch (in patch mode) gave an error if a hunk doesn't actually do anything. In addition to warning people who just try to fix (file mode) checkpatch warnings, it would note the situation where someone cleans up the style around a spot where they're putting a temporary debug check and ends up with just the style cleanup.<br> </div> Thu, 30 Sep 2010 18:27:20 +0000 https://lwn.net/Articles/407747/ https://lwn.net/Articles/407747/ dwheeler No. It'd be better to put that brief warning in the output of the tool itself. That way, *anyone* who uses the tool is presented with that information. Of course, they may ignore it anyway, but I think that would reduce the perceived flood. Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:21:11 +0000