On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 04:04:21PM +0000, Brendan Jackman wrote: > 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. I think humans should always ignore checkpatch. It's basically worthless.
