Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging:iio:adc:added space around '-'

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Sat, 2016-01-30 at 18:12 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> We could make checkpatch.pl not complain if the line says checkpatch:
> on
> it.  It would look like this.
> 
> -               in_voltage-voltage_thresh_low_value,
> +               in_voltage-voltage_thresh_low_value, /* checkpatch:
> not math */
> 
> I suppose I could have made the explanation longer since the it won't
> complain about the 80 character limit...  What do yo/u guys think?

Maybe use a more generic thing like the checkpatch type

               in_voltage-voltage_thresh_low_value, /* checkpatch-SPACING */

Even so, it might uglify checkpatch code a lot to
check something like this per-line or per-block.

And that likely would have to be per line in the
code as checkpatch couldn't see when a patch block
addition occurs outside the scope of a comment.

I suppose inside checkpatch the "sub report {"
function could be extended to look at the specific
$rawline being tested for any "checkpatch" comment
and if so, test if it's the specific $type.