Re: [PATCH 1/2] checkpatch: Add support for Checkpatch-ignore patch footer

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2025-01-13 at 16:04 +0000, Brendan Jackman wrote:
> Checkpatch sometimes has false positives. This makes it less useful for
> automatic usage: tools like b4 [0] can run checkpatch on all of your
> patches and give you a quick overview. When iterating on a branch, it's
> tiresome to manually re-check that any errors are known false positives.

If you do this, and perhaps it's not particularly necessary at all,
I suggest using something like the message-id or branch name for an
ignored types file and have the script auto-write the found types
into that file.