(adding Andrew Morton) On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 18:01 +0100, Knut Omang wrote: > This parameter is intended to be used in a subsequent commit to kbuild to > allow > a convenient way to run checkpatch from make.
_why_ is this useful? > By accepting comments and multiple lines of commands, the idea is that the > maintainer or someone else with good knowledge of the code can maintain a file > per directory and group the different commands into commented sections that > can > serve both as documentation of the current checkpatch status, a way to define > the line of tolerance (and gradually tighten it as fixes comes in) and as > documentation of TODOs and dont's if there are well justified exceptions. checkpatch can be run any time over individual files so I don't find this compelling. Does anyone else?
