[U-Boot] Policy for checkpatch usage?

[Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>]

Dear Graeme Russ,

In message <4DB0CF2F.2020701@gmail.com> you wrote:
>
> > That said, if someone wants to maintain a U-Boot version, that'd be great.
> 
> So, if someone maintains a U-Boot fork of checkpatch, keeps it up-to-date
> with the Linux version, and pushes patches back up to Linux (to keep them
> is sync as much as practicable possible) would we agree that that would be
> the most favoured solution?
> 
> I'm looking at checkpatch now (and its change history) - If I think I can
> take it on, I will send out a call for U-Boot specific checkpatch features

I think it wouldbe even better if we could push our changes back into
the "mainline" version of checkpatch, so that the U-Boot specific
behaviour can beenabled by a command line option (checkpatch --uboot ?).

Forking is not so preferrable here, I think.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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