[Qemu-devel] Checkpatch false positives (Was: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] hypertrace: Lightweight guest-to-QEMU trace channel)

[Lluís Vilanova]

no-reply  writes:
> Checking PATCH 1/6: hypertrace: Add documentation...
> ERROR: trailing whitespace
> #109: FILE: docs/hypertrace.txt:92:
> +    $

> ERROR: trailing whitespace
> #110: FILE: docs/hypertrace.txt:93:
> +    $

> ERROR: trailing whitespace
> #117: FILE: docs/hypertrace.txt:100:
> +    $

> ERROR: trailing whitespace
> #123: FILE: docs/hypertrace.txt:106:
> +    $

> ERROR: trailing whitespace
> #130: FILE: docs/hypertrace.txt:113:
> +    $

> ERROR: trailing whitespace
> #154: FILE: docs/hypertrace.txt:137:
> +    $

> ERROR: trailing whitespace
> #156: FILE: docs/hypertrace.txt:139:
> +    $

> ERROR: trailing whitespace
> #160: FILE: docs/hypertrace.txt:143:
> +    $

> ERROR: trailing whitespace
> #171: FILE: docs/hypertrace.txt:154:
> +    $

> ERROR: trailing whitespace
> #181: FILE: docs/hypertrace.txt:164:
> +    $

> total: 10 errors, 0 warnings, 236 lines checked

> Your patch has style problems, please review.  If any of these errors
> are false positives report them to the maintainer, see
> CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.

The errors above are false positives. AFAIR, in .txt files empty lines in code
examples need 4 white spaces to let the wiki properly render them as a single
code example block.


Thanks,
  Lluis