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* [PATCH 1/2] doc: Recommend "--no-signoff" when invoking checkpatch.pl
@ 2016-02-10 23:48 Mat Martineau
  2016-02-10 23:48 ` [PATCH 2/2] build: Undefine _FORTIFY_SOURCE when building without optimization Mat Martineau
  2016-02-11 19:53 ` [PATCH 1/2] doc: Recommend "--no-signoff" when invoking checkpatch.pl Denis Kenzior
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Mat Martineau @ 2016-02-10 23:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ell

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 doc/coding-style.txt | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/coding-style.txt b/doc/coding-style.txt
index c362eef..6b1c44a 100644
--- a/doc/coding-style.txt
+++ b/doc/coding-style.txt
@@ -11,13 +11,13 @@ can get a passport for your patch ASAP.
 First of all, the Embedded Linux Library coding style must follow every rule
 for the Linux kernel (http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/CodingStyle).
 There also exists a tool named checkpatch.pl to help you check the compliance
-with it. Just type "checkpatch.pl --no-tree patch_name" to check your patch.
+with it. Just type "checkpatch.pl --no-tree --no-signoff patch_name" to check
+your patch.
 
-In theory, you need to clean up all the warnings and errors except this
-one: "ERROR: Missing Signed-off-by: line(s)".  ell does not used Signed-Off
-lines, so including them is actually an error.  In certain circumstances one
-can ignore the 80 character per line limit.  This is generally only allowed if
-the alternative would make the code even less readable.
+In theory, you need to clean up all the warnings and errors.  In
+certain circumstances one can ignore the 80 character per line limit.
+This is generally only allowed if the alternative would make the code
+even less readable.
 
 Besides the kernel coding style above, the ell has special
 flavors for its own. Some of them are mandatory (marked as 'M'), while
-- 
2.7.0


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