[PATCH] 0/3 checkpatch updates, new checkfiles script

From: Erez Zadok
Date: Fri Oct 05 2007 - 13:11:38 EST



This series of patches adds a -t option to checkpatch, so it can print terse
messages one per line, in a format compatible with g/cc
(filename:linenumber:message). This format can be parsed by various tools
and editors that can help show the errors in one window and the offending
file+line in another window.

This patch series also introduces a new small shell script wrapper, called
scripts/checkfiles, that checks the compliance of source files (not in diff
format); the script can operate on any mix of files and directories
(recursively checking). For example, to check the entire Linux kernel, run:

$ ./scripts/checkfiles .

So, I ran the above script and it found nearly 1.5 million reported
warnings/errors, with drivers being the largest abuser, not surprisingly.
Here's the sorted breakdown per top-level subsystem:

32 usr
162 init
266 block
293 Documentation
471 ipc
819 mm
1115 security
1915 scripts
1948 kernel
4569 lib
4793 crypto
13851 net
80025 sound
86484 include
115789 arch
116623 fs
1035158 drivers
-------+-------
1464313 TOTAL

Any volunteers? :-)


Erez Zadok (3):
CHECKPATCH: update usage string for checkpatch.pl
CHECKPATCH: add terse output option to checkpatch.pl
CHECKFILES: new small shell script to check multiple source files

checkfiles | 34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
checkpatch.pl | 21 +++++++++++++++++----
2 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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Erez Zadok
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