Re: [PATCH v6 0/4] checkpatch: userspace improvements

From: Andrew Morton

Date: Sat Sep 05 2026 - 21:22:51 EST


On Fri, 4 Sep 2026 13:02:26 +0200 Petr Vorel <pvorel@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Few improvements for user space code + --userspace option for projects
> which vendored checkpatch.pl.
>
> There could be probably more checks which are kernel space only.

Thanks. Let me put this into mm.git's mm-nonmm-unstable branch (and
hence into linux-next) for testing and additional review.

> Follow-up: 99b70ece33d8 ("checkpatch: suppress strscpy warnings for userspace tools")

Sorry, I'm not a fan of inventing new tags. This isn't a documented
tag and nobody has ever used it before. I altered these to

: This is a follow-up to 99b70ece33d8 ("checkpatch: suppress strscpy
: warnings for userspace tools").