linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/2] checkpatch: Add support for Checkpatch-ignore patch footer

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Message-ID: <20250113-checkpatch-ignore-v1-0-63a7a740f568@google.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:04:21 +0000
From: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@...gle.com>
To: Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, 
	Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>, Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>, 
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, workflows@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 0/2] checkpatch: Add support for Checkpatch-ignore patch footer

Checkpatch sometimes has false positives. This makes it less useful for
automatic usage: tools like b4 [0] can run checkpatch on all of your
patches and give you a quick overview. When iterating on a branch, it's
tiresome to manually re-check that any errors are known false positives.

This patch adds a feature to record in the commit message that a patch
might produce a certain checkpatch error, and that this is an expected
false positive. Recording this information in the patch itself can also
highlight it to reviewers, so they can make a judgment as to whether
it's appropriate to ignore.

Signed-off-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@...gle.com>
---
Brendan Jackman (2):
      checkpatch: Add support for Checkpatch-ignore patch footer
      docs: checkpatch: Document Checkpatch-ignore patch footer

 Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst |  9 ++++++++-
 scripts/checkpatch.pl                  | 11 ++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: eae581be230bec00287807017839b3b2cd83f9ff
change-id: 20250113-checkpatch-ignore-1096914844eb

Best regards,
-- 
Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@...gle.com>