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
