On Wed, 14 Sep 2016, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Wed, 2016-09-14 at 16:35 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
>
> > The --force is only required for non-staging code?  If it is required for
> > staging code, then we will have to document it in the outreachy tutorial,
> > and then all the (non-outreachy) newbies who look at the tutorial will
> > know about it.
>
> Correct.
>
> drivers/staging gets a special exemption to avoid using --force

OK, seems quite perfect to me.

julia

>
> +	if (!$force && $file && $filename !~ m@^drivers/staging/@) {
> +		warn "$P: checking '$filename' is not supported\n";
> +		next;
> +	}
>
>