CC'ing Doug Goldstein as he has been reviewing some of Ishani's work (see below)
Both Andy Cooper and Doug Goldstein had done some groundwork earlier on this
topic
> On 24 Jul 2017, at 09:50, Juergen Gross <jgr...@suse.com> wrote:
>
> On the Xen Developer Summit 2017 in Budapest we agreed to add a
> script to the Xen repository capable to test patches for style
> correctness, similar to checkpatch.pl of the Linux kernel.
>
> This is a first draft of the interface visible to users and
> developers.
...
> RFC: Design Considerations
> --------------------------
> Remains the question how to design the style checker itself. It could
> be:
>
> (a) a monolithic script (perl, python, whatever) being capable of
> handling all the different coding styles
> (b) a main script checking the patch header and calling a code style
> specific script for each source file modified by the patch
>
> I believe (b) would be easier to maintain and to develop (we could start
> with the main script and add style specific scripts later).
I don't have a view on this, but wanted to point the following docs which cover
a little bit of groundwork on the subject, that can possibly be built upon
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10NJn-QvO1TvyJJJGE2PD6FtElYCT3neBAffIqeWHdiE/edit
<https://docs.google.com/document/d/10NJn-QvO1TvyJJJGE2PD6FtElYCT3neBAffIqeWHdiE/edit>
http://markmail.org/message/tmdv2zzd4dvjin7v
<http://markmail.org/message/tmdv2zzd4dvjin7v>
Regards
Lars
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