[ovs-dev] [PATCH] Add some more flake8 types to ignore list to fix the compilation errors

[Ben Pfaff]

On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 10:19:56AM -0500, Russell Bryant wrote:
> On 01/06/2016 06:29 AM, Numan Siddique wrote:
> > with the flake8 check enabled, ovs compilation is failing. This
> > patch adds few more flake8 types to the igore list.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Numan Siddique <nusiddiq at redhat.com>
> 
> Thanks for the patch!  After some discussion on IRC and more testing, I
> pushed this to master with some minor additions.
> 
> The issue turned out to be flake8 plugins.  My laptop did not have the
> docstrings and hacking flake8 plugins, which generate these additional
> errors.  Unfortunately, I don't see a way to configure flake8 with an
> explicit list of plugins to use, so we just get whatever is installed.

Would it work better to whitelist the warnings we want, with --select,
instead of blacklisting the warnings we don't want with --ignore?