From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
        akpm@linux-foundation.org, apw@canonical.com, tytso@mit.edu,
        dwalter@google.com, bp@suse.de, neilb@suse.de, hch@infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Remove --file option
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 08:27:22 +0300
In-Reply-To: <20140717160236.GD22791@pd.tnic> (Borislav Petkov's message of
	"Thu, 17 Jul 2014 18:02:36 +0200")
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Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> writes:

> No, checkpatch should only check patches and not whole file. It is
> wrong. Fullstop.

Please don't remove --file, I use it all the time when maintaining
ath6kl and ath10k. It's a lot easier in my workflow to test the whole
driver in one go than start testing individual patches.

-- 
Kalle Valo
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