linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: Match parentheses alignment

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Message-ID: <b22ffa716ee871f7e09ad7321213a897156edab0.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Wed, 14 Apr 2021 07:29:37 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Alex Elder <elder@...e.org>, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Zhansaya Bagdauletkyzy <zhansayabagdaulet@...il.com>
Cc:     johan@...nel.org, elder@...nel.org, greybus-dev@...ts.linaro.org,
        linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        outreachy-kernel@...glegroups.com,
        Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: Match parentheses alignment

On Wed, 2021-04-14 at 08:17 -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> Perhaps (like the -W options for GCC) there
> could be a way to specify in a Makefile which checkpatch
> messages are reported/not reported?  I don't claim that's
> a good suggestion, but if I could optionally indicate
> somewhere that "two consecutive blank lines is OK for
> Greybus" (one example that comes to mind) I might do so.

checkpatch already has --ignore=<list> and --types=<list>
for the various classes of messages it emits.

see: $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --list-types --verbose

Dwaipayan Ray (cc'd) is supposedly working on expanding
the verbose descriptions of each type.