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

[Cyril Hrubis]

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.

-- 
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz