Unlike sparse, this thing encourages the kind of behavior seen here.
And even worse it becomes monkey see monkey do.
There are mountains of more useful stuff to be working on (much of it
automated, but unlike checkpatch work doesn't result in crap) rather
than 148 patches of checkpatch vomit.
Fixing sparse warnings properly fixes real issues, whereas fixing
checkpatch stuff creates garbage 9 times out of 10.
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