From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from relay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0012.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.12]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3ECBA1C2324; Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:31:39 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=216.40.44.12 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1736796701; cv=none; b=ERZ0UufBQ1OrfdMn+YcZRBSbk0VweqNrLgN6Yc/cjt2su/K85WeWJglBqkeYUlz/sX4wX2ld9bRfXUBDIo2jZgwW3BGRiUcZJIrO17uP6D1HMm8N/33X9MQ2ys0BttKyN9huS3roVE/kllxhQdKrAIHG1P1O9ZvVXNcflPt+iV8= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1736796701; c=relaxed/simple; bh=2Enc4FtlvrYu9dd22AM1/QjKiu1FDRzVIJv6XU/DUh0=; h=Message-ID:Subject:From:To:Cc:Date:In-Reply-To:References: Content-Type:MIME-Version; b=T20nwUosYPKdOeJC4LachHbe7tyKrtXuKjB+y9k34Cd/2eSmss5Ii/pgNDTQvqRh17mwydn3QYpV4mZKh9TNAdk+bbLWHPlyOw10jbDh/d4VTaaz1DgUSzlU5jlC7BNdN35EYt2oCjNK4lVNbnhzV3l83pOhQIkfycDTKDvYlRc= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=perches.com; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=perches.com; arc=none smtp.client-ip=216.40.44.12 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=perches.com Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=perches.com Received: from omf06.hostedemail.com (a10.router.float.18 [10.200.18.1]) by unirelay07.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDC4816027F; Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:15:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [HIDDEN] (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf06.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 8347320011; Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:15:05 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] checkpatch: Add support for Checkpatch-ignore patch footer From: Joe Perches To: Brendan Jackman , Andy Whitcroft , Dwaipayan Ray , Lukas Bulwahn , Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, workflows@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 11:15:04 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20250113-checkpatch-ignore-v1-1-63a7a740f568@google.com> References: <20250113-checkpatch-ignore-v1-0-63a7a740f568@google.com> <20250113-checkpatch-ignore-v1-1-63a7a740f568@google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.54.2 (3.54.2-1.fc41) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: workflows@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 8347320011 X-Rspamd-Server: rspamout01 X-Stat-Signature: zpo89xy57w8yut5mbwbgsq95rqy837sr X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Session-ID: U2FsdGVkX1//o6dTscF80we7PZOpO7Qu7Bx4hCV7Rm4= X-HE-Tag: 1736795705-571437 X-HE-Meta: U2FsdGVkX19aP5NcJEVTKkIveRSWOIKotubsvM5hfYyTCDeTN0VN1cdPGuyvpSoaXMxrIHTYic9CLn71IV+XCdED5rrmIQOVe81a0Ui4Xij7IIoLt4tTyJMia7M6pvNGw9VEhMfTcnaaLwTkhM56tGZ5GdD5LUwEfG+Tk7mnxESy4k1sRE0Oe06bEj8aevs78hVKXkjSyQeqpiWV0Z61J+Y+EoSo5XEaAk9wfosCCBqtMO/W1NexgSrVagOtRNPyU4kMia4tN+KRbSJfTbmpUFpt9YHvGzT4xzW1BcWzN8PNhwExKfrxGeep6HLkjjwr On Mon, 2025-01-13 at 16:04 +0000, Brendan Jackman wrote: > Checkpatch sometimes has false positives. This makes it less useful for > automatic usage: tools like b4 [0] can run checkpatch on all of your > patches and give you a quick overview. When iterating on a branch, it's > tiresome to manually re-check that any errors are known false positives. If you do this, and perhaps it's not particularly necessary at all, I suggest using something like the message-id or branch name for an ignored types file and have the script auto-write the found types into that file.