From: Johan Malm <jgm323@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2021 23:14:52 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: CONTRIBUTING.md: add link to checkpatch.pl
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CONTRIBUTING.md: add link to checkpatch.pl
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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md
index a2b22f8e..156c86d8 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.md
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 Let's try to stick to sircmpwn's [coding style]
 
+If you're not used to it, you can use [checkpatch.pl] to run a few simple formatting checks.
+
 And write [commit messages] like so, keeping the top line to this sort of syntax:
 
 ```
@@ -10,3 +12,5 @@ cursor: add special feature
 
 [coding style]: https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/cstyle
 [commit messages]: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wlroots/wlroots/-/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#commit-messages 
+[checkpatch.pl]: https://github.com/johanmalm/checkpatch.pl
+