Re: checkkpatch (in)sanity ?

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Aug 29 2016 - 15:01:04 EST


On Mon, 2016-08-29 at 21:01 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:

> there's now quite a
> difference with checkpatch parameters what other people use and what I
> use.
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> I find checkpatch very useful to maintain certain coding style in ath10k
> and I don't need to worry small details like whitespace. I just need to
> disable some of the warnings so that they don't hide the real warnings
> I'm interested about.

I don't see a conflict here.

The entire point of classifying all of those checkpatch
message types was to allow exactly what you are doing.