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Message-ID: <20150716172124.GK3681@bark>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 18:21:24 +0100
From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: Checkpatch: False positive
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 08:58:56AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2015-07-16 at 16:43 +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 08:35:58AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > > #31:
> > > > arch/x86/kernel/hpet.c | 198 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
> >
> > I guess those are in the limbo land between the end of message and
> > beginning of the patch itself. Perhaps the test should at least stop at
> > the end of header marker, at the '---'.
> >
> > -apw
>
> Maybe, but the test already stops at signatures like
> Signed-off-by: that should always be above the ---.
>
> This might help, but there are _many_ false positives.
>
> The other thing that might help is for people to take
> the warnings the script produces less seriously.
>
> Maybe convert:
>
> ERROR -> defect
> WARNING -> unstylish
> CHECK -> nitpick
Heh, that has long been the main issue, please please believe your brain
not checkpatch. But yes some less inflamitory words might, just might,
reduce the noise.
-apw
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