Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754337AbbBKXBp (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:01:45 -0500 Received: from smtprelay0124.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.124]:44187 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752638AbbBKXBo (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:01:44 -0500 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::::::::::::::::::::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:599:973:988:989:1260:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1539:1593:1594:1711:1714:1730:1747:1777:1792:1801:2393:2553:2559:2562:2693:2828:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3351:3622:3866:3867:3874:4321:4605:5007:6261:6742:9121:10004:10400:10848:11232:11233:11658:11914:12517:12519:12740:13069:13153:13228:13311:13357:21080,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:fn,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:0:0 X-HE-Tag: grain62_651f733967c08 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 2288 Message-ID: <1423695692.15343.26.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: checkpatch induced patches... From: Joe Perches To: Dan Carpenter Cc: Pavel Machek , Richard Weinberger , Andrew Morton , "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" , gmate.amit@gmail.com, Greg KH , Bas Peters , LKML , Pushpendra Singh , manuel.schoelling@gmx.de, Sudip Mukherjee , Kalle Valo Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 15:01:32 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20150211224300.GD5155@mwanda> References: <20150211083328.GJ5206@mwanda> <1423647637.15343.16.camel@perches.com> <20150211105122.GN5206@mwanda> <1423677629.15343.18.camel@perches.com> <20150211183615.GQ5206@mwanda> <1423686025.15343.20.camel@perches.com> <20150211202441.GD29636@amd> <1423687383.15343.22.camel@perches.com> <20150211224300.GD5155@mwanda> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.7-0ubuntu1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 906 Lines: 22 On Thu, 2015-02-12 at 01:43 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > 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? Maybe they're simply hopeful their patches compile. Many checkpatch users seem unaware their patches need to compile though. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/