On 04/21/2017 08:31 AM, Jerome Forissier wrote: > On 04/20/2017 06:49 PM, Joe Perches wrote: >> On Thu, 2017-04-20 at 17:39 +0200, Jerome Forissier wrote: >>> When using checkpatch on out-of-tree code, it may occur that some >>> project-specific types are used, which will cause spurious warnings. >>> Add the --typedefsfile option as a way to extend the known types and >>> deal with this issue. >> >> I'm not opposed to the addition. >> What out-of-tree project is this for? > > OP-TEE [1]. We run a Travis job on all pull requests [2], and checkpatch > is part of that. The typical false warning we get on a regular basis is > with some pointers to functions returning TEE_Result [3], which is a > typedef from the GlobalPlatform APIs. We consider it is acceptable to > use GP types in the OP-TEE core implementation, that's why this patch > would be helpful for us. > > [1] https://github.com/OP-TEE/optee_os > [2] https://travis-ci.org/OP-TEE/optee_os/builds > [3] https://travis-ci.org/OP-TEE/optee_os/builds/193355335#L1733
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