On Mon, Oct 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM Dan Carpenter <[email protected]> wrote:
> > General question about the process for my understanding:
> > Is checkpatch run on full tree by CI or someone and results reported
> > regularly ?
>
> Newbies run it regularly. Otherwise it gets run on subsystem CIs and
> the zero-day bot runs it on new patches but it will report the old
> warnings as well under the "Old warnings" section.
>
> > My understanding was that we would run it only on patches
> > before submitting them Or we just run it on full tree before adding
> > new checks to understand if they are catching real issues
>
> Eventually someone will look at all the warnings. And probably it's
> going to be a newbie and so we need to be careful with warning where
> newbies might introduce bugs with their changes.
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>
Makes sense. Thanks!!
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aheev
