Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH 0/3] scripts: Configure and update tools to allow basic b4 usage

["Christoph Schlameuss" <schlameuss@linux.ibm.com>]

On Fri Apr 24, 2026 at 9:19 AM CEST, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 23/04/2026 16.16, Christoph Schlameuss wrote:
>> Provide some basic configuration for checkpatch.pl so that use on the
>> command line is less confusing and actually useful.
>> Checking new patches with i.e. 'b4 prep --check' will now not just give you
>> dummy errors.
>> 
>> Modify get_maintainer.pl to work when called from 'b4 prep --auto-to-cc'.
>> 
>> ---
>> The second patch also copies the current codespell config from the kernel.
>> I think this would be nice to have but I would also understand if nobody
>> wants to add that dead weight here. In that case I would also agree drop
>> that second patch.
>
> IMHO the dictionary that comes along with the codespell utility should 
> already be good enough to cover most of these typos, so I'm inclined to 
> rather say "no" to the second patch. Instead, maybe you could introduce a 
> k-u-t specific spelling.txt to get rid of the warning message, with some few 
> entries like:
>
> kmv||kvm
> RDSMR||RDMSR
> WRSMR||WRMSR
>
> ?
>
> (the latter two entries were fixed by commit 784dd85d25d484)
>
> WDYT?
>
>   Thomas

Fine with that. I will have a look around if there are some other things like
that we can add.