On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 12:43:03PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > Maybe some help/warning text like: > > --force Without --force, checkpatch will not scan files > using -f or --file outside of drivers/staging/... > Do not use this option merely to create potential > patches that are uncompiled or untested.
Everyone compiles their patches hopefully? The problem is with patches that aren't really a cleanup but are just done to make checkpatch happy. I guess documenting --force is better than not documenting. regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/