On Wed, 2019-10-30 at 09:35 -0700, Brendan Higgins wrote: > Agreed. I can see the point of not wanting to write an exception into > checkpatch for every exception of it's general rules; however, it > would be nice if there was a way to maybe have a special comment or > something that could turn off a checkpatch error. That way, a > checkpatch error/warning always means some action should be taken, and > if a rule is being ignored, there is always documentation as to why. That couldn't work when a comment which may exist in a file is out of scope of the patch context.
