Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: Match parentheses alignment

[Alex Elder]

On 4/14/21 9:29 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-04-14 at 08:17 -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> > Perhaps (like the -W options for GCC) there
> > could be a way to specify in a Makefile which checkpatch
> > messages are reported/not reported?  I don't claim that's
> > a good suggestion, but if I could optionally indicate
> > somewhere that "two consecutive blank lines is OK for
> > Greybus" (one example that comes to mind) I might do so.
>
> checkpatch already has --ignore=<list> and --types=<list>
> for the various classes of messages it emits.
>
> see: $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --list-types --verbose
>
> Dwaipayan Ray (cc'd) is supposedly working on expanding
> the verbose descriptions of each type.

That's awesome, I wasn't aware of that.

Any suggestions on a standardized way to say "in this
subtree, please provide these arguments to checkpatch.pl"?

I can probably stick it in a README file or something,
but is there an existing best practice?

Thanks.

					-Alex