Re: [RFC PATCH v1] checkpatch: Handle FILE pointer type

[Mickaël Salaün]

On 01/09/2022 17:49, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2022-09-01 at 16:59 +0200, Mickaël Salaün wrote:

[...]

> > +# our $typeKselftestHarnessTypedefs = qr{(?x:
> > +# 	FIXTURE_(?:DATA|VARIANT)\($Ident\)
> > +# )};
>
> But not this.  Random userspace typedefs should likely
> be kept in some local version of checkpatch.
>
> Or maybe add a command line option like --additional_typedefs=<file>.

This is part of the kselftest harness API. Could we take this into 
account for files under tools/testing/selftests ?

> >   our $typeTypedefs = qr{(?x:
> >   	$typeC99Typedefs\b|
> >   	$typeOtherOSTypedefs\b|
> > -	$typeKernelTypedefs\b
> > +	$typeKernelTypedefs\b|
> > +	$typeStdioTypedefs\b
> >   )};