On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 at 17:20, Matthew Wilcox <wi...@infradead.org> wrote: > I think humans should always ignore checkpatch. It's basically > worthless.
Do you know of anything better? I guess it's feasible to build something that's actually good at this job using tree-sitter or something, maybe it exists. But outside of projects that just enforce clang-format or whatever, checkpatch.pl is still the best (or perhaps least bad) thing I've personally experienced. I won't deny that most error types have only ever presented themselves to me as noise. But the basic "don't do braces like that" and "you have a stray space here" stuff has been useful.
