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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] scripts: add checkpatch wrapper
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 17:23:29 +0100
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2015-10-30 16:16, Bruce Richardson:
> Another request, can you perhaps also fix the script for situations where 
> checkpatch.pl is not in the kernel tree. I've used this script now to check a
> couple of patchsets, which came back clean, but it turns out that because I was
> using checkpatch.pl outside the kernel directory, it is passing things it
> shouldn't. [Thanks to Sergio for pointing this out]. 
> 
> Testing with a known-broken patch, this script indicates all ok, and only
> reports an error with the --no-tree added to the options inside the script. :-(

OK
I prefer using it in the Linux tree because it is updated with "git pull".