[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] checkpatch/Codingstyle and trivial patch spam

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2016-09-14 at 16:35 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:

> The --force is only required for non-staging code?  If it is required for
> staging code, then we will have to document it in the outreachy tutorial,
> and then all the (non-outreachy) newbies who look at the tutorial will
> know about it.

Correct.

drivers/staging gets a special exemption to avoid using --force

+	if (!$force && $file && $filename !~ m@^drivers/staging/@) {
+		warn "$P: checking '$filename' is not supported\n";
+		next;
+	}