doc: added information on how to run the linter.

Added clarification about the linter execution.

PR-URL: #7534
Reviewed-By: Anna Henningsen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <[email protected]>

Author: diosney

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -151,6 +151,9 @@ $ ./configure && make -j8 test
 Make sure the linter is happy and that all tests pass. Please, do not submit
 patches that fail either check.
 
+Running `make test` will run the linter as well unless one or more tests fail.
+If you want to run the linter without running tests, use `make lint`.
+
 If you are updating tests and just want to run a single test to check it, you
 can use this syntax to run it exactly as the test harness would: