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From:   Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH v2 3/3] libnvdimm, MAINTAINERS: Maintainer Entry Profile
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On Fri, 13 Sep 2019, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
> And the documentation doesn't help.  For example, I knew people's rules
> about capitalizing the subject but I'd just forget.  I say that if you
> can't be bothered to add it to checkpatch then it means you don't really
> care that strongly.

It would be entirely possible to add the subsystem/driver specific
checkpatch rules to MAINTAINERS entries or directory specific config
files. As checkpatch options directly. For example

--strict --max-line-length=100 --ignore=BIT_MACRO,SPLIT_STRING,LONG_LINE_STRING,BOOL_MEMBER

or whatever.

SMOP. ;)

BR,
Jani.


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Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center