Re: [PATCH linux-kselftest/test v6] lib/list-test: add a test for the 'list' doubly linked list

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2019-10-30 at 13:42 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 01:02:11AM -0700, David Gow wrote:
> > > ERROR: that open brace { should be on the previous line
> > > #869: FILE: lib/list-test.c:680:
> > > +static void list_test_list_for_each_entry_reverse(struct kunit *test)
> > > +{
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I am seeing these error and warns. As per our hallway conversation, the
> > > "for_each*" in the test naming is tripping up checkpatch.pl
> > > 
> > > For now you can change the name a bit to not trip checkpatch and maybe
> > > explore fixing checkpatch to differentiate between function names
> > > with "for_each" in them vs. the actual for_each usages in the code.
[]
> It's better to ignore checkpatch and other scripts when they are wrong.
> (unless the warning message inspires you to make the code more readable
> for humans).

True.