On 31/07/20 19:27, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > You say "main feature", I say "biggest flaw" ;-P > > Doing checks on patches is the single worst thing about the way > we do code style validation, at it means the bulk of committed code > is never in compliance. The need to check patches is precisely because > the committed code is unclean and so can't be checked without raising > pages of problems.
This is true for code formatting but not for style warnings. A stupid example is that you need to use strtol to implement the recommended replacement qemu_strtol. We could invent our own "allow-this" lint syntax but it would be a much bigger job. Paolo
