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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: Match parentheses alignment
To:     Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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From:   Alex Elder <elder@ieee.org>
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Date:   Wed, 14 Apr 2021 09:35:14 -0500
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On 4/14/21 9:29 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-04-14 at 08:17 -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
>> Perhaps (like the -W options for GCC) there
>> could be a way to specify in a Makefile which checkpatch
>> messages are reported/not reported?  I don't claim that's
>> a good suggestion, but if I could optionally indicate
>> somewhere that "two consecutive blank lines is OK for
>> Greybus" (one example that comes to mind) I might do so.
> 
> checkpatch already has --ignore=<list> and --types=<list>
> for the various classes of messages it emits.
> 
> see: $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --list-types --verbose
> 
> Dwaipayan Ray (cc'd) is supposedly working on expanding
> the verbose descriptions of each type.
> 

That's awesome, I wasn't aware of that.

Any suggestions on a standardized way to say "in this
subtree, please provide these arguments to checkpatch.pl"?

I can probably stick it in a README file or something,
but is there an existing best practice?

Thanks.

					-Alex