On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 06:02:33PM +0000, Reshetova, Elena wrote: > >Improve tooling. The patterns shouldn't be _that_ hard to find. Once the > >tools are good, new code isn't a problem either. > > Moreover, thinking of out of tree drivers: you think they would always > do checkpatch or run some of our tools for security checks?
Also, checkpatch is a horrid example. That's mostly meaningless and menial noise. Nobody wants to run that, even if, between all the gibberish it lists a few sensible things. Make an always enabled GCC plugin that generates build warns with a low enough false positive rate and nobody will complain.
