## Command line options
-`-W[file]` whitelists that file and exculudes it from being checked. Helpful
-when for example one of the files are generated.
+`-W[file]` whitelists that file and excludes it from being checked. Helpful
+when, for example, one of the files is generated.
`-D[dir]` directory name to prepend to file names when accessing them.
- `COMMANOSPACE`: a comma without following space
-- `COPYRIGHT`: the file iis missing a copyright statement!
+- `COPYRIGHT`: the file is missing a copyright statement!
- `CPPCOMMENTS`: `//` comment detected, that's not C89 compliant
## Ignore certain warnings
-Due to the nature of source code and the flaws of the checksrc tool, there are
-sometimes a need to ignore specific warnings. checksrc allows a few different
-ways to do this.
+Due to the nature of the source code and the flaws of the checksrc tool, there
+is sometimes a need to ignore specific warnings. checksrc allows a few
+different ways to do this.
### Inline ignore
/* !checksrc! disable LONGLINE all */
-This will ignore the warning for overly long lines until later in the code it
-is enabled again:
+This will ignore the warning for overly long lines until it is re-enabled with:
/* !checksrc! enable LONGLINE */
-If the enabling isn't done before the end of the file, it will be enabled
-automatically for the next file anyway.
+If the enabling isn't performed before the end of the file, it will be enabled
+automatically for the next file.
You can also opt to ignore just N violations so that if you have a single long
line you just can't shorten and is agreed to be fine anyway: