On Sat, 16 Dec 2017 15:42:29 +0100
Knut Omang [off-list ref] wrote:

+
+# Important to fix from a quality perspective:
+#
+except AVOID_BUG connection.c ib.c ib_cm.c ib_rdma.c ib_recv.c ib_ring.c ib_send.c info.c loop.c message.c
+except AVOID_BUG rdma.c recv.c send.c stats.c tcp_recv.c transport.c
+except MEMORY_BARRIER ib_recv.c send.c tcp_send.c
+except WAITQUEUE_ACTIVE cong.c ib_rdma.c ib_ring.c ib_send.c
+except UNNECESSARY_ELSE bind.c ib_cm.c
+except MACRO_ARG_PRECEDENCE connection.c ib.h rds.h
+except MACRO_ARG_REUSE rds.h
+except ALLOC_SIZEOF_STRUCT cong.c ib.c ib_cm.c loop.c message.c rdma.c
+except UNCOMMENTED_DEFINITION ib_cm.c
+
+# Code simplification:
+#
+except ALLOC_WITH_MULTIPLY ib.c
+except PREFER_PR_LEVEL ib_cm.c ib_recv.c ib_send.c rdma_transport.c threads.c transport.c
+except UNNECESSARY_ELSE ib_fmr.c
+except UNNECESSARY_PARENTHESES ib_rdma.c rdma.c recv.c send.c
+except PRINTK_RATELIMITED ib_frmr.c
+except EMBEDDED_FUNCTION_NAME ib_rdma.c
+
+# Style and readability:
+#
+except BRACES ib_cm.c ib_rdma.c ib_recv.c send.c transport.c
+except OOM_MESSAGE ib.c tcp.c
+except LONG_LINE_STRING ib.c ib_recv.c ib_send.c
+except FUNCTION_ARGUMENTS ib.h ib_mr.h rds.h tcp.h
+except OPEN_ENDED_LINE recv.c ib_recv.c
+
+# Candidates to leave as exceptions (don't fix):
+except MULTIPLE_ASSIGNMENTS ib_send.c
+except LONG_LINE_STRING connection.c
+except OPEN_BRACE connection.c
+

Why start letting subsystems have a free-pass?
Also this would mean that new patches to IB would continue the bad habits.