Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Print filenames of patches

From: Andy Whitcroft
Date: Tue Nov 20 2007 - 04:12:01 EST


On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 11:03:47AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> checkpatch: Print filenames of patches instead of the very uninformative
> `Your patch'.

Well this isn't quite enough as we often use this thing checking its
stdin. Which leads to an even less useful '- has no obvious ...'. I
guess a hybrid would be an improvement.

> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> This patch is not `checkpatch' clean :-)
> Although I shortened 2 lines, they're still longer than 80 characters...

Heh, yeah its a pig getting those RE's into 80 chars.

> scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -1408,10 +1408,10 @@ sub process {
> }
> }
> if ($clean == 1 && $quiet == 0) {
> - print "Your patch has no obvious style problems and is ready for submission.\n"
> + print "$filename has no obvious style problems and is ready for submission.\n"
> }
> if ($clean == 0 && $quiet == 0) {
> - print "Your patch has style problems, please review. If any of these errors\n";
> + print "$filename has style problems, please review. If any of these errors\n";
> print "are false positives report them to the maintainer, see\n";
> print "CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.\n";
> }

-apw
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