Re: [PATCH 0/9] Kconfig: cleanup s390 v2.

[Dave Jones]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 05:24:47PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

 > It would be neat if someone could create and maintain a new
 > scripts/spot-common-mistakes.  Feed it a unified diff and it would complain
 > about newly-added code (and only newly-added code) which has busted
 > whitespace, adds new semaphores, adds new kernel_thread calls, etc, etc.

years and years ago, when the dinosaurs roamed the land, I hacked up..
http://janitor.kernelnewbies.org/scripts/  and then left it by the wayside.
Some of the checks it did are actually bogus, but I'm happy to pick that
up again if there's interest in it being a useful tool.

In fact, I should probably munge it together with a similar thing
I wrote at http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/findbugs/
(Warning: scary regexps)

 > It would need to be fairly simple and easily-extensible, as I can
 > imagine quite a few things getting added to it.
 > 
 > (Imagines a procmail rule which just bounces the email if
 > spot-common-mistakes failed)

or a git checkin rule that refuses to commit if it fails ;-)

	Dave

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