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Subject: Re: Software evolution around
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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@jic23.retrosnub.co.uk>,
        SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
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On Sat, 2018-02-10 at 14:53 +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> While it would be great to improve checkpatches false
> positive rate, it's very nature as a string matcher makes
> this hard.

true.

what are the false positives you see?