On Thu, 2020-12-03 at 06:39 -0800, Tom Rix wrote:
> I agree if it can be done in checkpatch it should.
> It is good to have multiple passes on cleaning.

true
 
> checkpatch is best at fixing new problems,
> clang-tidy-fix is best at fixing old problems.

checkpatch is a set of brainless regexes that operates on
incomplete information.  It's not a real parser nor compiler.

It's really only useful as a way to avoid trivial style issues.

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