Re: [PATCH 0/2] checkpatch: Add support for Checkpatch-ignore patch footer

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 04:04:21PM +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.
> 
> This patch adds a feature to record in the commit message that a patch
> might produce a certain checkpatch error, and that this is an expected
> false positive. Recording this information in the patch itself can also
> highlight it to reviewers, so they can make a judgment as to whether
> it's appropriate to ignore.

I think humans should always ignore checkpatch.  It's basically
worthless.