Checkpatch sometimes has false positives. This makes it less useful for
automatic usage: tools like b4 [0] can run checkpatch on all of your
patches and give you a quick overview. When iterating on a branch, it's
tiresome to manually re-check that any errors are known false positives.
This patch adds a feature to record in the commit message that a patch
might produce a certain checkpatch error, and that this is an expected
false positive. Recording this information in the patch itself can also
highlight it to reviewers, so they can make a judgment as to whether
it's appropriate to ignore.
Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Brendan Jackman (2):
checkpatch: Add support for Checkpatch-ignore patch footer
docs: checkpatch: Document Checkpatch-ignore patch footer
Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst | 9 ++++++++-
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 11 ++++++++++-
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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base-commit: eae581be230bec00287807017839b3b2cd83f9ff
change-id: 20250113-checkpatch-ignore-1096914844eb
Best regards,
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Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@xxxxxxxxxx>
