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On Wed, 2019-10-30 at 09:35 -0700, Brendan Higgins wrote:
> Agreed. I can see the point of not wanting to write an exception into
> checkpatch for every exception of it's general rules; however, it
> would be nice if there was a way to maybe have a special comment or
> something that could turn off a checkpatch error. That way, a
> checkpatch error/warning always means some action should be taken, and
> if a rule is being ignored, there is always documentation as to why.

That couldn't work when a comment which may exist
in a file is out of scope of the patch context.