Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: fix camel case seeding when run with --root

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2019-03-20 at 20:09 +0000, Keller, Jacob E wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Keller, Jacob E
> > Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2019 6:04 PM
> > To: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: Intel Wired LAN <intel-wired-lan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>; netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> > Keller, Jacob E <jacob.e.keller@xxxxxxxxx>; joe@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: fix camel case seeding when run with --root
> > 
> > checkpatch.pl avoids warning about camel case of some definitions by
> > seeding a file that tracks all of the currently committed camel case
> > definitions.
> > 
> > To build this seed file, checkpatch.pl decides between using git or the
> > --root parameter.
> > 
> > This works as long as you don't run checkpatch.pl from within
> > a different git tree that is not the Linux kernel.

Odd use case, but I'll forward it on as it doesn't
seem to have any other effect.

cheers, Joe