linux-kernel - Re: checkpatch whitespace

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Message-ID: <20090721130618.GP12122@shadowen.org>
Date:	Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:06:18 +0100
From:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
To:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@...il.com>
Cc:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: checkpatch whitespace

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 01:05:27PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 July 2009 12:01:14 Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> > Would it be possible to add autofixing to checkpatch? Fixing
> > whitespace issues by hand is useless & boring task...
> 
> That's why most people use scripts for it.. ;)
> 
> scripts/cleanfile
> scripts/cleanpatch
> 
> Maybe we should make checkpatch inform people about them
> (if any whitespace errors were detected)..

That sounds like a good idea.  Will have a look at doing that.

-apw
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