linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH v2 3/3] libnvdimm, MAINTAINERS: Maintainer Entry Profile

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Date:   Mon, 16 Sep 2019 15:42:54 +0300
From:   Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...el.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@...el.com>,
        ksummit-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        linux-nvdimm@...ts.01.org, Vishal Verma <vishal.l.verma@...el.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH v2 3/3] libnvdimm, MAINTAINERS: Maintainer Entry Profile

On Fri, 13 Sep 2019, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> wrote:
> And the documentation doesn't help.  For example, I knew people's rules
> about capitalizing the subject but I'd just forget.  I say that if you
> can't be bothered to add it to checkpatch then it means you don't really
> care that strongly.

It would be entirely possible to add the subsystem/driver specific
checkpatch rules to MAINTAINERS entries or directory specific config
files. As checkpatch options directly. For example

--strict --max-line-length=100 --ignore=BIT_MACRO,SPLIT_STRING,LONG_LINE_STRING,BOOL_MEMBER

or whatever.

SMOP. ;)

BR,
Jani.


-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center