Seriously folks, checkpatch is a tool that's to be used for a reason, not a reason by itself.
And it used to be a lot more useful before adding all kinds of bullshit warnings. I use checkpatch a lot, and I also ignore silly warnings in it a lot as it's piling up more and more crap. And then again there are just plenty of commits that touch existing code for a minor change, and I'm not going to bother rewriting the steaming pile of crap around it. And checkpath really shouldn't even bother to warn for context of diffs that's not even touched by default.
