linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.08

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Date:	Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:39:36 -0700
From:	"SL Baur" <steve@...acs.org>
To:	"Adrian Bunk" <bunk@...sta.de>
Cc:	jschopp <jschopp@...tin.ibm.com>,
	"Andy Whitcroft" <apw@...dowen.org>,
	"Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>,
	"Paul Mundt" <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>,
	"Randy Dunlap" <rdunlap@...otime.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.08

On 7/24/07, Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de> wrote:

> There are more important things than exploiting the corner cases of
> codingstyle, e.g. could you teach checkpatch.pl to give exactly two
> errors for the following code?
>
>
>         while (a);
>                 for (b = 0; b < 50; b++);
>                         for (c = 0; c < sizeof(struct module); c++)
>                                 d = e;

There are three errors there.  The while (a) busy wait needs a cpu_relax()
or something, the first for is at the wrong level of indentation and the
second for is at the wrong level of indentation relative to the first one.
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