Re: checkpatch false positive for "do not use assignment in if condition"

[Ethan Nelson-Moore]

Hi, Joe,

On Sun, May 10, 2026 at 12:31 PM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> checkpatch is fundamentally stupid and an incomplete parser.   Rely on
> your brain to ignore its incorrect bleats when it's wrong.
>
> FYI it's looking for a single equal sign in the statement

That all makes sense - I just sent this email because checkpatch told
me to contact the maintainers if I saw any false positives :p

Ethan