linux-kernel - Re: latest checkpatch

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Date:	Thu, 18 Oct 2007 15:25:02 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: latest checkpatch

On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 16:57:49 -0400 Jeff Garzik wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > there's "checkpatch --file" for complete files, so it can see the full 
> > context if the user passes it in.
> 
> This is new, I guess?
> 
> [jgarzik@...tzel linux-2.6]$  scripts/checkpatch.pl --file 
> drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
> Unknown option: file
> 
> Such an option would be quite useful, but does not appear in upstream.
> 
> Also, upstream lacks support for "-h" and "--help" so you get to guess 
> at the options.

Yep.

Andy has sent latest to akpm, so it could be pushed to Linus as well.

and you can also get latest at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/apw/checkpatch/

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~Randy
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