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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/7] kbuild: Add P= command line flag to run checkpatch
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Jim Davis <jim.epost@gmail.com>, Knut Omang <knut.omang@oracle.com>
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On Tue, 2017-11-21 at 12:48 -0700, Jim Davis wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 1:10 AM, Knut Omang <knut.omang@oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> > Would you like to keep the checkpatch changes in some form, or would you rather
> > see everything happening in the wrapper?
> 
> I don't have a strong preference one way or another, but keeping
> everything in a wrapper script might be easier if only because you
> wouldn't need to get signoffs from whoever maintains checkpatch too.

Keeping everything in a wrapper script would also allow
any arbitrary checker to be run with minimal changes to
the Makefile/build subsystem.