Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Test for kmalloc/memset(0) pairs

From: Alejandro Riveira FernÃndez
Date: Sun Mar 20 2011 - 10:48:52 EST


El Sun, 20 Mar 2011 11:54:12 +0100
Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> escribiÃ:


>
> I think the point Pekka tried to make is to have it integrated into the kbuild
> mechanism as well at a certain point. That way it's very easy to use it and we
> maintainers could require frequent patch submitters to use those tools to check
> the quality of their patches. Right now i cannot require that, as it's not part
> of the kernel repo. Requiring a checkpatch.pl check is much easier, as it's
> available to everyone who is writing kernel patches.

But a perl interpreter is not shipped with the kernel, is it? neither a
posix shell or a python interpreter ...
The scripts are already shipped with the kernel, the "interpreter" have
to be installed in the dev machine like you have to install perl, make,
gcc, etc

just my two cents as a bystander :)

>
> Thanks,
>
> Ingo
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