[LTP] [PATCH 1/1] checkpatch: Ignore warnings irrelevant in userspace

[Richard Palethorpe]

Hi,

Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz> writes:

>> Hi!
>> > FYI the error is from fanotify.h (kind of lapi file for fanotify:
>> <
>> > #ifndef __kernel_fsid_t
>> > typedef struct {
>> > 	int	val[2];
>> > } lapi_fsid_t;
>> > #define __kernel_fsid_t lapi_fsid_t
>> > #endif /* __kernel_fsid_t */
>
>> > which we added in b8aebc835 ("fanotify: Fix missing __kernel_fsid_t definition")
>> > "Instead of including <asm/posix_types.h> where it's defined we just
>> > define the missing bit." (fix for musl).
>
>> I'm aware of that, and while typedef is mostly wrong there are a few
>> places where it's required.
>
>> > But if you prefer to keep this check, I'm ok to merge it without it.
>
>> > The long term solution could be to add variable to Makefile to pass extra
>> > parameters, e.g.:
>> > check_fanotify.h: CHECKPATCH_IGNORE += NEW_TYPEDEFS
>
>> Case by case decisions like this for typedef sounds better to me.
> +1 (TODO after the release).
> Thanks for your time!

Don't forget this, I'm setting it changes requested in patchwork

>
> Kind regards,
> Petr


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Thank you,
Richard.