linux-kernel - Re: Software evolution around “checkpatch.pl”?

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Date:   Sat, 10 Feb 2018 06:59:43 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...23.retrosnub.co.uk>,
        SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:     linux-iio@...r.kernel.org, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
        Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
        Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@....de>,
        Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
        Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
        Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@...erw.net>,
        Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@...ux.intel.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Software evolution around
 “checkpatch.pl”?

On Sat, 2018-02-10 at 14:53 +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> While it would be great to improve checkpatches false
> positive rate, it's very nature as a string matcher makes
> this hard.

true.

what are the false positives you see?