[PATCH v4] patman: By default don't pass "--no-tree" to checkpatch for linux

[Simon Glass]

On Tue, 19 Jul 2022 at 16:00, Douglas Anderson <dianders at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> When you pass "--no-tree" to checkpatch it disables some extra checks
> that are important for Linux. Specifically I want checks like:
>
>   warning: DT compatible string "boogie,woogie" appears un-documented
>   check ./Documentation/devicetree/bindings/
>
> Let's make the default for Linux to _not_ pass --no-tree. We'll have a
> config option and command line flag to override.
>
> Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders at chromium.org>
> ---
> Without BooleanOptionalAction (python 3.9), it's a little odd to make
> the help text understandable while having the help text account for
> the project settings when printing the default (which it can only
> print as "True" or "False". It feels like no matter how you swing it
> you've got to use a double-negative or use weird syntax like I did.
>
> I removed previous review/testing tags since at least parts of this
> patch changed in non-trivial ways.
>
> This patch is now a singleton since the other patches in the series
> landed or became irrelevant.
>
> Changes in v4:
> - Don't use BooleanOptionalAction
>
>  tools/patman/checkpatch.py | 11 +++++++----
>  tools/patman/control.py    |  7 ++++---
>  tools/patman/main.py       |  6 ++++++
>  tools/patman/settings.py   |  3 ++-
>  4 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>