Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [PATCH] checkpatch: Add comment aboutupdating Documentation/CodingStyle

[Bjorn Helgaas]

On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks! Yes I'm now running checkpatch these days because some people
> suggested to me that some of the checkpatch warnings do help catch
> real bugs.
>
> However I do try to avoid upsetting people with maybe-subjective
> warnings. A checkpatch report will only be sent when a small fraction
> of error types are detected. Comments are very welcome on how to
> improve this list:

How hard would it be to make this configurable per-git tree?  I think
the robot is quite useful and I don't push branches very often, so I'd
probably be OK with just getting all the checkpatch warnings along
with the build warnings and filtering the noise myself.  But I know
other people have different styles and opinions.

> MEMSET
> IN_ATOMIC
> UAPI_INCLUDE
> MALFORMED_INCLUDE
> SIZEOF_ADDRESS
> KREALLOC_ARG_REUSE
> EXECUTE_PERMISSIONS
> ERROR:BAD_SIGN_OFF
> LO_MACRO
> HI_MACRO
> CSYNC
> SSYNC
> HOTPLUG_SECTION
> INDENTED_LABEL
> INLINE_LOCATION
> STORAGE_CLASS
> USLEEP_RANGE
> UNNECESSARY_CASTS
> ALLOC_SIZEOF_STRUCT
> KREALLOC_ARG_REUSE
> USE_FUNC
> LOCKDEP
> EXPORTED_WORLD_WRITABLE
> WHITESPACE_AFTER_LINE_CONTINUATION
> MISSING_VMLINUX_SYMBOL
> NEEDLESS_IF
> PRINTF_L
>
> Once the decision is made to send a checkpatch error/warning, the
> report email will use the triggering error (the one that matters) as
> the email subject, with the complete output of checkpatch.pl included
> in email body.
>
> Thanks,
> Fengguang
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