Re: [PATCH] spin_lock_unlocked cleanups

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 09:56 +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> > > I think we're ready to wire checkpatch up to a email robot which monitors
> > > the mailing lists and sends people nastygrams.  I bet that'll be popular ;)
> > 
> > We should wire it up to git-commit as well. A lot of that comes in via
> > git subsystems.
> 
> The problem with git-commit is who's repo to add the hook to.  I did
> attempt to do this by picking up each of linus' main releases and then
> using the git blame engine to attribute each "failure" to a particular
> commit.  The plan then would be to send a nasty-gram to the committer
> about violations there-in.
> 
> I'll try and find some time to get this bit polished and at least
> emailing me.

The question is, whether we can convince the git developers to integrate
it. When a commit happens and checkpatch.pl is in scripts/, then run the
patch through it before doing the actual commit.

	tglx



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