Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Mar 2012 20:31:57 -0400 | From | Ted Ts'o <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Suggest pr_<level> over printk(KERN_<LEVEL> |
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On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 03:03:16PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Sure but if a particular kernel file or subsystem is _not_ using > > pr_foo(), having a checkpatch which tries to force everyone to use > > pr_foo() is going to be really annoying to me as a maintainer... > > Yes, that's what I fear. That's why I'm testing it...
Perhaps the answer is a ".checkpatch_ignore" file that can be maintained by maintainers in each directory to suppress specific checkpatch warnings that the maintainers don't agree with. That way we don't have to worry about checkpatch maintainers try to impose their pet programming style preferences on maintainers who don't want to get random trivial style-fixing patches from well-meaning kernel newbies...
- Ted
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