On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 05:34:28PM +0200, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> checkpatch.pl is a nice tool to find issues in patches.
> Sadly this tool gets more and more abused by various people to create
> style cleanups for source files within the kernel.
> In order to deal with that bad habit let's remove the --file option
> and bring checkpatch.pl back to its original purpose.
>
> Suggested-by: NeilBrown <ne...@suse.de>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <rich...@nod.at>
Very good idea:
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de>
You could also make it do:
if ($file) {
print STDERR "Go find real bugs in the kernel instead!\n";
exit(-1);
}
if someone supplies --file on the cmdline.
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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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