Re: [PATCH] add a trivial patch style checker v2

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Tue, 29 May 2007, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> As a first step package up the current state of the patch style
> checker and include it in the kernel tree.  Add instructions
> suggesting running it on submissions.  This adds version v0.01 of
                                                           ^^^^^
> the checkpatch.pl script.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 	Ok, here is V2 of the checker.	A lot of feedback has been
                    ^^
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -0,0 +1,595 @@
> +#!/usr/bin/perl -w
> +# (c) 2001, Dave Jones. <davej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (the file handling bit)
> +# (c) 2005, Joel Scohpp <jschopp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (the ugly bit)
> +# (c) 2007, Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxx> (new conditions, test suite, etc)
> +# Licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL License version 2
> +
> +use strict;
> +
> +my $P = $0;
> +
> +my $V = '0.01';
            ^^^^
So, what's the correct version number? ;-)

Will http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/checkpatch/checkpatch.git/ (hey, a
project with the same name started by the same person???) be merged in?

Below is a small fix for the wrong hardcoded script name

---
Subject: [PATCH] Fix checkpatch.pl name in usage template

Fix checkpatch.pl name in usage template:
  - Don't use wrong hardcoded script name
  - Strip dirname from command name

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 use strict;
 
 my $P = $0;
+$P =~ s@.*/@@g;
 
 my $V = '0.01';
 
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@ GetOptions(
 my $exit = 0;
 
 if ($#ARGV < 0) {
-	print "usage: patchstylecheckemail.pl [options] patchfile\n";
+	print "usage: $P [options] patchfile\n";
 	print "version: $V\n";
 	print "options: -q           => quiet\n";
 	print "         --no-tree    => run without a kernel tree\n";


Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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