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From: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Subject: Re: [U-Boot] [RFC PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Add ability to ignore various messages
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Comments: In-reply-to Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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Dear Joe,

In message <b41636a5e5756917b07e50a4b8309dbb092b0a17.1303778411.git.joe@perches.com> you wrote:
> Some users would like the ability to not emit some of the
> messages that checkpatch produces.
> 
> Add command line option to "--ignore" various message types.
> Add .checkpatch.conf file to store a default set of "ignore" flags
> Categorize all ERROR, WARN and CHK types with flags.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl |  456 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>  1 files changed, 327 insertions(+), 129 deletions(-)

Did you receive any feedback for your proposal, especially from Andrew
Morton?

This feature would be really useful for us, but I'd rather see this in
mainline than starting a fork.

Best regards,
Viele Grüße,

Wolfgang Denk

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