Re: latest checkpatch

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Thu Oct 18 2007 - 18:25:21 EST


On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:57:49 -0400 Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > there's "checkpatch --file" for complete files, so it can see the full
> > context if the user passes it in.
>
> This is new, I guess?
>
> [jgarzik@pretzel linux-2.6]$ scripts/checkpatch.pl --file
> drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
> Unknown option: file
>
> Such an option would be quite useful, but does not appear in upstream.
>
> Also, upstream lacks support for "-h" and "--help" so you get to guess
> at the options.

Yep.

Andy has sent latest to akpm, so it could be pushed to Linus as well.

and you can also get latest at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/apw/checkpatch/

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~Randy
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