On Sat, 2017-12-16 at 09:47 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

On Sat, 16 Dec 2017 15:42:25 +0100
Knut Omang [off-list ref] wrote:

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This patch series implements features to make it easier to run checkers on the
entire kernel as part of automatic and developer testing.

This is done by replacing the sparse specific setup for the C={1,2} variable
in the makefiles with setup for running scripts/runchecks, a new program that
can run any number of different "checkers". The behaviour of runchecks is
defined by simple "global" configuration in scripts/runchecks.cfg which can be
extended by local configuration applying to individual files, directories or
subtrees in the source.

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I like the ability to add more checkers and keep then in the main
upstream tree. But adding overrides for specific subsystems goes against
the policy that all subsystems should be treated equally.

There was discussion at Kernel Summit about how the different
subsystems already have different rules. This appears to be a
way to make that worse.

I think that's OK and somewhat reasonable.

What is perhaps unreasonable is requiring subsystems with
a local specific style to change to some universal style.

see comments like:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/11/689