From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: fix naked sscanf false positives
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2016 09:46:54 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160205094654.GC32153@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160205082952.GA18361@kwern-VirtualBox>
On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 12:29:52AM -0800, Kevin Wern wrote:
> There is a section of checkpatch.pl that intends to ensure the return
> value of sscanf is always checked. However, in certain cases, like in
> drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc.mod.c
You shouldn't be running checkpatch.pl on a mod.c file. Those are just
a build artifact and not code.
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-05 9:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-05 8:29 [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: fix naked sscanf false positives Kevin Wern
2016-02-05 9:46 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2016-02-06 5:26 ` Joe Perches
2016-02-06 6:58 ` Kevin Wern
2016-02-06 17:20 ` Joe Perches
2016-02-06 21:24 ` Kevin Wern
2016-02-06 23:08 ` Joe Perches
2016-02-12 5:35 ` Kevin Wern
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