Commit ab4ee77e authored Aug 15, 2025 by Jakub Kicinski

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>

parent b55f7295

Documentation/process/maintainer-netdev.rst

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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)