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Message-ID: <a1071d5d3dbfaa0e9e54b359d7b889d84d063804.camel@perches.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 11:15:04 -0800
From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@...gle.com>, Andy Whitcroft
 <apw@...onical.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
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] checkpatch: Add support for Checkpatch-ignore patch
 footer

On Mon, 2025-01-13 at 16:04 +0000, Brendan Jackman wrote:
> 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.

If you do this, and perhaps it's not particularly necessary at all,
I suggest using something like the message-id or branch name for an
ignored types file and have the script auto-write the found types
into that file.