linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.10

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Date:	Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:57:34 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
Cc:	WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Joel Schopp <jschopp@...tin.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.10

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:19:01 +0200 (CEST) Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> 
> On Sep 28 2007 19:03, WANG Cong wrote:
> >
> >Maybe checkpatch.pl needs an option '-W' to turn on/off those vexed "noise".
> >(It seems that 'q|quiet' doesn't do as much as what it hints.)
> 
> Make checkpatch.pl a C language parser, then it can handle
> all the whitespace violations without false positives. :-)

Well, yes, that's the root problem.
checkpatch is a regex tool, not a C parser.

And like Andy commented in another mail in this thread, (esp. since
it's not a C parser), it's just a guide.

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~Randy
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