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Subject: Re: Checkpatch Feature Idea: Search directory for files with errors
 and warnings with -d argument
From: Nick Krause <xerofoify@gmail.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.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>
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On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:23 AM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 00:16 -0400, Nick Krause wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 11:38 PM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.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 aRrgument 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@vger.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
>
> I again suggest you _ONLY_ use checkpatch on staging.
>
> Doing checkpatch only cleanups will not make you a
> better developer nor give you a good understanding
> of the code operation.
>

I am cleaning up the kernel as it needs a lot of cleanup.  In addition
I am doing build related issues.
Some developers removed me from FIX MES after several stupid patches I
sent. If there is a area
that needs help , please let me know :).
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