Pylint warns about things like ``log.info('...'.format(...))``.
It insists on ``log.info('...', ...)``.
This is of minor utility (mainly a performance gain when there are
many messages that use formatting and are below the log level).
Some versions of Pylint (including 1.8, which is the version on
Ubuntu 18.04) only recognize old-style format strings using '%',
and complain about something like ``log.info('{}', foo)`` with
logging-too-many-args (Pylint supports new-style formatting if
declared globally with logging_format_style under [LOGGING] but
this requires Pylint >=2.2).
Disable this warning to remain compatible with Pylint 1.8 and not have
to change abi_check.py to use %-formats instead of {}-formats when
logging.
Signed-off-by: Gilles Peskine <Gilles.Peskine@arm.com>
The pylint configuration in .pylint was a modified version of the
output of `pylint --generate-rcfile` from an unknown version of
pylint. Replace it with a file that only contains settings that are
modified from the default, with an explanation of why each setting is
modified.
The new .pylintrc was written from scratch, based on the output of
pylint on the current version of the files and on a judgement of what
to silence generically, what to silence on a case-by-case basis and
what to fix.
