[PATCH v2] checkpatch: auto detect codespell dictionary path

From: Dwaipayan Ray
Date: Tue May 11 2021 - 10:05:38 EST


The codespell dictionary was moved from
`/usr/share/codespell/dictionary.txt` to data/dictionary.txt
under the codespell_lib installation directory.

Checkpatch still uses a default absolute path for it which will
no longer work on new codespell installations unless the path
is specified through --codespellfile.

Detect the codespell dictionary path dynamically during
runtime if the default path or the user provided dictionary
path does not exist.

Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@xxxxxxxxx>
---

Changes in v2:
- Check the external command return code to handle the case
when codespell isn't installed.
- Use python to invoke the interpreter rather than python3

scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 23697a6b1eaa..4b1994bb443e 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -889,6 +889,13 @@ if (open(my $spelling, '<', $spelling_file)) {
}

if ($codespell) {
+ if (! -e "$codespellfile" && which("python") ne "" &&
+ `python -c "import sys; print(sys.version_info.major)"` >= "3") {
+ my $output = `python -c "import codespell_lib; print(codespell_lib.__file__);" 2>/dev/null`;
+ if ($? == 0) {
+ $codespellfile = dirname($output) . "/data/dictionary.txt";
+ }
+ }
if (open(my $spelling, '<', $codespellfile)) {
while (<$spelling>) {
my $line = $_;
--
2.28.0