Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752301Ab1DYGCW (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2011 02:02:22 -0400 Received: from mail.perches.com ([173.55.12.10]:4947 "EHLO mail.perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751424Ab1DYGCW (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2011 02:02:22 -0400 Subject: Re: Expanding checkpatch for non-linux (specifically U-Boot) use From: Joe Perches To: Graeme Russ , Andy Whitcroft , Andrew Morton Cc: LKML , U-Boot Users In-Reply-To: <4DB50854.8090700@gmail.com> References: <4DB50854.8090700@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:02:20 -0700 Message-ID: <1303711340.1745.30.camel@Joe-Laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2676 Lines: 78 On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 15:36 +1000, Graeme Russ wrote: > There has been a bit of discussion lately on the U-Boot mailing list > regarding the use of checkpatch for U-Boot patches (see > http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2011-April/090954.html) > > U-Boot uses the Linux coding style and checkpatch is therefore a very good > tool for us to use to check style compliance. However, checkpatch has a few > Linux specific checks which throw up false warnings for U-Boot patches like: > > WARNING: consider using kstrto* in preference to simple_strto* > WARNING: Use #include instead of > > Also, checkpatch seems to be checking not only patched lines, but context > lines as well. There is a policy for U-Boot patches to not intermix > whitespace / code cleanup changes and functional changes in in the same > patch. So to achieve zero warnings and errors, the submitter is forced to > create an additional code-cleanup patch in addition to the functionality > patch. The code cleanup can end up being significantly larger than the > functionality change which discourages casual submitters. > > So I have a pretty simple question to ask of LKML - Will checkpatch patches > to create a 'U-Boot' command-line option to explicitly filter out Linux > specific warnings and errors ever be accepted into checkpatch, or will we > be required to create and maintain a U-Boot specific version? > > P.S. If you could please keep the U-Boot mailing list Cc'd, that would be > appreciated Hi Graeme. Perhaps some sort of .checkpatch.conf file could be introduced which could be linked to specific types of errors/warnings/checks that should be reported or ignored. checkpatch has central routines to emit messages. sub ERROR { if (report("ERROR: $_[0]\n")) { our $clean = 0; our $cnt_error++; } } sub WARN { if (report("WARNING: $_[0]\n")) { our $clean = 0; our $cnt_warn++; } } sub CHK { if ($check && report("CHECK: $_[0]\n")) { our $clean = 0; our $cnt_chk++; } } For instance, warnings could be changed to include a new unique identifier for each message. from WARN("Signed-off-by: is the preferred form\n" . $herecurr); to WARN($WARN_SIGN_OFF, "Signed-off-by: is the preferred form\n" . $herecurr); and the ERROR/WARN/CHK routines could be extended to use entries in the .conf file to enable/disable each message. uboot could then use an appropriate .conf file. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/