Re: scripts/checkpatch.pl in 2.4 git

From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput
Date: Sat Jan 03 2009 - 09:24:48 EST


On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 07:04:57PM +0530, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
>> Hello Willy,
>>
>> Do you have any plans to add scripts/checkpatch.pl in 2.4 git.
>
> Not particularly planned, though I have nothing against including it if
> some people want to use it.
>

Please add it. At least I can use it :-)

>> Currently, what is the procedure to check patch for 2.4 git.
>
> Nowadays, 2.4 patches are so small that one's eyes are enough to check
> for correctness ;-)
>

I ran 2.6 checkpatch.pl on some files and found lot of style problems
like white spaces and indent.
After fixing these problems code will be more read-able.
I have plan to fix these problems on some important files. What you
think about this.

Thank you,
JSR
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