On Mon, 2016-08-29 at 11:01 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > I don't find checkpatch.pl overly useful for my own patches and rarely > run it.
I mostly run checkpatch to test new checkpatch rules. I generally don't run it on my own patches, mostly out of possibly misplaced confidence in my own adherence to the nominal kernel style. It sometimes leads to mild regret over things like whitespace defects. I get over it quickly. But I also think checkpatch's overall false positive reporting rate is relatively low. Most all of what it does to report possible defects is nominally correct. If anyone has examples of bad reporting by checkpatch, please send it.