Re: [RFC PATCH 01/18] arm: cppcheck: misra rule 20.7 deviations for alternative.h

[Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 22 Dec 2022, Jan Beulich wrote:
> On 22.12.2022 03:01, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > What do you guys think? Nice automatic 20.7 scans for all patches and
> > for staging, but with the undesirable false-positive comments, or
> > no-20.7 scans but no comments in the tree?
> 
> Anything automatic which then also bugs submitters about issues should
> have as few false positives as possible. Otherwise people may quickly
> get into the habit of ignoring such reports.

You have a point. That said, it would be easy to spot false positives in
new patches once we start from a clean slate, but then if we merge the
patch we would also have to add a deviation comment for the false
positive.

All in all, maybe it is best to skip checking for 20.7 for now in
gitlab-ci.