From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2016 09:46:54 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: fix naked sscanf false positives
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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