Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: Match parentheses alignment | From | Alex Elder <> | Date | Wed, 14 Apr 2021 09:35:14 -0500 |
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On 4/14/21 9:29 AM, Joe Perches wrote: > 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. >
That's awesome, I wasn't aware of that.
Any suggestions on a standardized way to say "in this subtree, please provide these arguments to checkpatch.pl"?
I can probably stick it in a README file or something, but is there an existing best practice?
Thanks.
-Alex
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