linux-kernel - Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [PATCH] checkpatch: Add comment about updating Documentation/CodingStyle

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Message-ID: <20130904004903.GB8739@localhost>
Date:	Wed, 4 Sep 2013 08:49:03 +0800
From:	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
To:	Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
Cc:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
	"ksummit-2013-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org" 
	<ksummit-2013-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org>,
	Wang Shilong <wangshilong1991@...il.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@...sung.com>
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [PATCH] checkpatch: Add comment about
 updating Documentation/CodingStyle

On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 12:09:31PM -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com> wrote:
> 
> > Thanks! Yes I'm now running checkpatch these days because some people
> > suggested to me that some of the checkpatch warnings do help catch
> > real bugs.
> >
> > However I do try to avoid upsetting people with maybe-subjective
> > warnings. A checkpatch report will only be sent when a small fraction
> > of error types are detected. Comments are very welcome on how to
> > improve this list:
> 
> How hard would it be to make this configurable per-git tree?

It'd be trivial to do.

> I think the robot is quite useful and I don't push branches very
> often, so I'd probably be OK with just getting all the checkpatch
> warnings along with the build warnings and filtering the noise
> myself.  But I know other people have different styles and opinions.

Would you tell me the git tree/branches that would like to receive all
checkpatch warnings? It'll should be useful for our internal kernel
team, too.

Thanks,
Fengguang

> > MEMSET
> > IN_ATOMIC
> > UAPI_INCLUDE
> > MALFORMED_INCLUDE
> > SIZEOF_ADDRESS
> > KREALLOC_ARG_REUSE
> > EXECUTE_PERMISSIONS
> > ERROR:BAD_SIGN_OFF
> > LO_MACRO
> > HI_MACRO
> > CSYNC
> > SSYNC
> > HOTPLUG_SECTION
> > INDENTED_LABEL
> > INLINE_LOCATION
> > STORAGE_CLASS
> > USLEEP_RANGE
> > UNNECESSARY_CASTS
> > ALLOC_SIZEOF_STRUCT
> > KREALLOC_ARG_REUSE
> > USE_FUNC
> > LOCKDEP
> > EXPORTED_WORLD_WRITABLE
> > WHITESPACE_AFTER_LINE_CONTINUATION
> > MISSING_VMLINUX_SYMBOL
> > NEEDLESS_IF
> > PRINTF_L
> >
> > Once the decision is made to send a checkpatch error/warning, the
> > report email will use the triggering error (the one that matters) as
> > the email subject, with the complete output of checkpatch.pl included
> > in email body.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Fengguang
> > _______________________________________________
> > Ksummit-2013-discuss mailing list
> > Ksummit-2013-discuss@...ts.linuxfoundation.org
> > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ksummit-2013-discuss
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