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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE suppressions PUBLIC "-//Puppy Crawl//DTD Suppressions 1.1//EN" "http://www.puppycrawl.com/dtds/suppressions_1_1.dtd">
+
+<suppressions>
+     <!--
+        Note: Exclusion definition exists in multiple places.
+        - In file ${findbugs.excludeFilterFile} defined at top of pom.xml
+        - In file conf/checkstyle/suppressions.xml (this file)
+        - maven-pmd-plugin configuration in pom.xml
+          (under build and reporting)
+     -->
+
+    <!-- Suppressions for ONOS -->
+    <suppress files="edu.stanford.ramcloud.*" checks="[_a-zA-Z0-9]*"/>
+    <suppress files="net.floodlightcontroller.*" checks="[_a-zA-Z0-9]*"/>
+    <suppress files="net.onrc.onos.core.datastore.serializers.*" checks="[_a-zA-Z0-9]*"/>
+
+    <!-- BigSwitch packet code is designed to use parameter names that override
+         local member names -->
+    <suppress files="net.onrc.onos.core.packet.*" checks="HiddenField"/>
+
+    <suppress files=".*" checks="FinalParametersCheck"/>
+    <suppress files=".*" checks="MagicNumbersCheck"/>
+    <suppress files=".*" checks="DesignForExtensionCheck"/>
+    <suppress files=".*" checks="TodoCommentCheck"/>
+    <suppress files=".*" checks="AvoidInlineConditionalsCheck"/>
+    <suppress files=".*" checks="OperatorWrapCheck"/>
+</suppressions>
+