Add an option to indicate that U-Boot-specific checks should be enabled.
Add a function to house the code that will be added.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>

A 2 line help entry for a new Kconfig entry is, at this time, sufficient
in some cases, so lets drop that warning for now.

Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>

The Linux kernel, from which checkpatch originates, contains function
ether_addr_copy() to copy Ethernet MAC addresses, and checkpatch warns
that it should be used in preference to memcpy() where appropriate.
U-Boot doesn't contain ether_addr_copy(), so tell checkpatch not to issue
this warning.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
Acked-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger@ni.com>
Tested-by: Anand Moon <linux.amoon@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Anand Moon <linux.amoon@gmail.com>

When use checkpatch.pl to check network related patch, it will report
--->8---
WARNING: networking block comments don't use an empty /* line,
use /* Comment...
---<8---

So, add --ignore NETWORKING_BLOCK_COMMENT_STYLE into .checkpatch.conf
This will help to keep all driver include network related driver use
the same comment style

Signed-off-by: Bo Shen <voice.shen@atmel.com>

usleep_range() is a Linux facility, ignore it when udelay()
is encountered.

Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@ti.com>

without this, patches don't get checked for proper alignment,
and e.g., for spaces after a cast and/or before a semicolon.

Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>

Added from Linux - commit 30ecad51849ae132dc6ef6ddb62d499c7257515b

Include config file to ignore common false-positives

Signed-off-by: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger@ni.com>
Cc: Joe Hershberger <joe.hershberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>