Re: checkpatch induced patches...

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Wed Feb 11 2015 - 13:36:32 EST


On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:00:29AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> I'm half tempted to submit some patch like this to
> make it difficult to use checkpatch on files outside
> of drivers/staging.
>
> o Only allow checkpatch to be used with the -f/--file
> option for drivers/staging/
> o Add an undocumented --force command line option

Sure. We could try that. I once sent a patch to make -f generate a
warning about not wasting people's time, but this is also ok.

> o Make --strict the default for drivers/staging

Ack.

regards,
dan carpenter

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