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

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 06/09/2016 11:11, Lluís Vilanova wrote:
> 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.

Right, can you make a patch for that?  It should recognize exactly 4
patches and only apply to .txt and .md files.

Paolo