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Message-ID: <530C8D00.8070606@ti.com>
Date:	Tue, 25 Feb 2014 07:30:56 -0500
From:	Tom Rini <trini@...com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
CC:	Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Add warning for new __packed additions

On 02/25/2014 12:23 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-02-24 at 17:43 -0500, Tom Rini wrote:
>> My perl is quite limited, so however much effort you're interested in
>> putting in here is greatly appreciated (even if it's pointing out
>> something else already in the script to copy and modify).  We already
>> ship a .checkpatch.conf so having to enable something by default is
>> fine.  Thanks!
> 
> The U-Boot checkpatch is not the same as the current
> linux version and would need updating.
> 
> Tell me a little more please about how often or possible
> it would be to update the current linux version of
> checkpatch to the version used in U-Boot.

The only intentional differences we have today are adding debug/printf
to the list of log functions and pointing people at boards.cfg not
CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS, so I can re-sync us no problem as, yup, we're
about a year out of date there.  Oh and I see now someone snuck in a
check for whitespace before semi-colon to catch 'return 0 ;' which I'll
check real quick isn't something already caught and if not post that as
well.

-- 
Tom
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