Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 21:36:15 +0300
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
        gmate.amit@gmail.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
        Bas Peters <baspeters93@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Pushpendra Singh <pushpendra.singh@smartplayin.com>,
        manuel.schoelling@gmx.de, Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: checkpatch induced patches...
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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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