checkpatch: add --typedefsfile
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. This was developed 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 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ba1124d6dfa599bb0dd1d8919dd45dd09ce541a4.1492702192.git.jerome.forissier@linaro.orgSigned-off-by: Jerome Forissier <jerome.forissier@linaro.org> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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