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charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 10:57=E2=80=AFAM Dan Carpenter wrote: > > General question about the process for my understanding: > > Is checkpatch run on full tree by CI or someone and results reported > > regularly ? > > Newbies run it regularly. Otherwise it gets run on subsystem CIs and > the zero-day bot runs it on new patches but it will report the old > warnings as well under the "Old warnings" section. > > > My understanding was that we would run it only on patches > > before submitting them Or we just run it on full tree before adding > > new checks to understand if they are catching real issues > > Eventually someone will look at all the warnings. And probably it's > going to be a newbie and so we need to be careful with warning where > newbies might introduce bugs with their changes. > > regards, > dan carpenter > Makes sense. Thanks!! --- aheev