diff --git a/lib/checksrc.pl b/lib/checksrc.pl
index cd4314b51..190f00c93 100755
--- a/lib/checksrc.pl
+++ b/lib/checksrc.pl
@@ -26,13 +26,31 @@ my $indent = 2;
 
 my $warnings;
 my $errors;
+my $supressed; # whitelisted problems
 my $file;
 my $dir=".";
 my $wlist;
 
+my %whitelist;
+
+sub readwhitelist {
+    open(W, "<checksrc.whitelist");
+    my @all=<W>;
+    for(@all)  {
+        chomp;
+        $whitelist{$_}=1;
+    }
+    close(W);
+}
+
 sub checkwarn {
     my ($num, $col, $file, $line, $msg, $error) = @_;
 
+    if($whitelist{$line}) {
+        $supressed++;
+        return;
+    }
+    
     my $w=$error?"error":"warning";
 
     if($w) {
@@ -78,6 +96,8 @@ if(!$file) {
     exit;
 }
 
+readwhitelist();
+
 do {
     if("$wlist" !~ / $file /) {
         my $fullname = $file;
diff --git a/lib/checksrc.whitelist b/lib/checksrc.whitelist
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..da7b75dc0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/checksrc.whitelist
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+    227 Entering Passive Mode (a1,a2,a3,a4,p1,p2)
+    228 Entering Long Passive Mode (4,4,a1,a2,a3,a4,2,p1,p2)
+      150 ASCII data connection for /bin/ls (137.167.104.91,37445) (0 bytes).
+      150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for [file] (0.0.0.0,0) (545 bytes)
+   * no_proxy=domain1.dom,host.domain2.dom
+     Default values are (0,0) initialized by calloc.
diff --git a/src/checksrc.whitelist b/src/checksrc.whitelist
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..335d44329
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/checksrc.whitelist
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+ * 'name=@filename,filename2,filename3'
+ * 'name=@filename;type=image/gif,filename2,filename3'
+ 
\ No newline at end of file