linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/12] printk: Replace strncmp with str_has

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Message-ID: <20190801124037.11dcac71@gandalf.local.home>
Date:   Thu, 1 Aug 2019 12:40:37 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Chuhong Yuan <hslester96@...il.com>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/12] printk: Replace strncmp with str_has_prefix

On Thu, 01 Aug 2019 09:19:04 -0700
Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:

> > I find that checkpatch.pl forbids assignment in if condition.
> > So this seems to be infeasible...  
> 
> checkpatch is a stupid script and doesn't forbid
> anything.  It's just a suggestion guide.
> 
> Ignore checkpatch when you know better.

And this is coming from the checkpatch.pl maintainer ;-)

-- Steve