linux-kernel - Re: Checkpatch Feature Idea: Search directory for files with errors and warnings with -d argument

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Wed, 16 Jul 2014 00:16:48 -0400
From:	Nick Krause <xerofoify@...il.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, josh@...htriplett.org,
	robh@...nel.org, florian.vaussard@...l.ch,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Checkpatch Feature Idea: Search directory for files with errors
 and warnings with -d argument

On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 11:38 PM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-07-15 at 22:50 -0400, Nick Krause wrote:
>> I may have not found it myself but if it doesn't exist can we write a
>> feature for checkpatch to be able to recursively
>> search a directory structure with a -d argument in order to make it
>> easier to search larger directories for files that still
>> need cleanup for files having kernel coding style issues.
>linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> xargs already works fine.
>
> git ls-files <dir>/*.[ch] | xargs ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f
>
> I suggest you only use anything like this
> on staging directories.
>
>

Thanks Joe,
That was what I needed to known :). I was hitting some errors in arch,
so I will run that to see if there are any others.
Cheers Nick
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/