Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.03

[Andy Whitcroft]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:46:24 +0100
> Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> This version brings a host of changes to cure false positives and
>> bugs detected on patches submitted to lkml and -mm.  It also brings
>> a number of new tests in response to reviews, of particular note:
>>
>>   - catch use of volatile
>>   - allow deprecated functions to be listed in feature-removal-schedule.txt
>>   - warn about #ifdef's in c files
>>   - check that spinlock_t and struct mutex use is commented
>>   - report on architecture specific defines being used
>>   - report memory barriers without an associated comment
> 
> Oy.  I ran checkpatch.pl across this patch and it failed to report upon the
> new trailing whitespace which you just tried to add.

Herm, I guess thats cause its a .pl and therefore exempt from most of
the checks.

I guess line length and white space checks make sense some degree on
those files.  I'll sort that out and I guess we'll have anohter version.
 Sounds like the #ifdef checks are too much anyhow.

-apw
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