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Subject: Re: Checkpatch Feature Idea: Search directory for files with errors
 and warnings with -d argument
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Nick Krause <xerofoify@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, josh@joshtriplett.org,
        robh@kernel.org, florian.vaussard@epfl.ch,
        "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2014 20:38:57 -0700
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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.

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.


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