linux-kernel - Re: checkpatch, a patch checking script.

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Message-ID: <ada1wi5npam.fsf@cisco.com>
Date:	Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:36:17 -0700
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: checkpatch, a patch checking script.

 > http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/checkpatch/example.log shows
 > what fell out of running it on my mbox of lkml from the past month.
 > Some of them are kinda noisy, and perhaps should be moved under --pedantic
 > 
 > I'm all ears for additional regexps, bug reports or other suggestions.

Looks great... however I notice a few obvious false positives in the
example log:

 > Don't init statics to 0/NULL:
 > 94312:+static const struct in6_addr in6addr_v4mapped = { { { [10] = 0xff, [11] = 0xff } } };

ummm?

 > 137054:+static uint32_t drvr_ver  = 0x02200207;

that ain't zero...

 > 230079:+                path->static_rate = 0;

and that ain't a static variable.

I guess trying to parse C in a regexp is a little tricky.

Also, it would be nice to be able to do something like

    git diff v2.6.20..|perl ~/checkpatch.pl -

rather than having to create a temp file -- as it stands that command
produces

    unknown option: -
    usage: findbugs.pl [-options] file(s)
      -allsource : check entire source file, not just '+' patch lines
      -pedantic : TBD
      -style : TBD
      -v, --verbose : verbose
      -h, --help : this help text
    Version: 002

And even worse

    git diff v2.6.20..|perl ~/checkpatch.pl

just silently does nothing (maybe a "no input files" warning would be
a good clue for people).

 - R.
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