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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 01:43:00 +0300
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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Subject: Re: checkpatch induced patches...
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On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 12:43:03PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> Maybe some help/warning text like:
> 
>   --force                    Without --force, checkpatch will not scan files
>                              using -f or --file outside of drivers/staging/...
>                              Do not use this option merely to create potential
>                              patches that are uncompiled or untested.

Everyone compiles their patches hopefully?  The problem is with patches
that aren't really a cleanup but are just done to make checkpatch happy.

I guess documenting --force is better than not documenting.

regards,
dan carpenter
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