linux-kernel - checkkpatch (in)sanity ?

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Date:   Sat, 27 Aug 2016 13:40:52 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>, alexander.levin@...izon.com,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org
Subject: checkkpatch (in)sanity ?

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 01:26:35PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 12:46:51AM -0400, Levin, Alexander wrote:
>>    - Making checkpatch check for (some) of the stable kernel rules
>>    (and possibly recommend adding the stable@ tag in certain cases?).
>>      - Depends on: making checkpatch sane again.>This sounds interesting.  What do you mean by "sane"?

Sasha, can you expand your thoughts here please?

Most all of the trivial spacing stuff can easily be
ignored either by a human determining what's important
or by using command line options like --ignore=spacing