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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: Match parentheses alignment
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On Wed, 2021-04-14 at 08:17 -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> Perhaps (like the -W options for GCC) there
> could be a way to specify in a Makefile which checkpatch
> messages are reported/not reported?  I don't claim that's
> a good suggestion, but if I could optionally indicate
> somewhere that "two consecutive blank lines is OK for
> Greybus" (one example that comes to mind) I might do so.

checkpatch already has --ignore=<list> and --types=<list>
for the various classes of messages it emits.

see: $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --list-types --verbose

Dwaipayan Ray (cc'd) is supposedly working on expanding
the verbose descriptions of each type.