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

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Date:   Sat, 10 Feb 2018 14:53:36 +0000
From:   Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...23.retrosnub.co.uk>
To:     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 Tue, 6 Feb 2018 09:45:48 +0100
SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> > Check patch is dumb and often gives false positives.  
> 
> Would you like to improve this software situation anyhow?

While it would be great to improve checkpatches false
positive rate, it's very nature as a string matcher makes
this hard.

Jonathan

> 
> Regards,
> Markus