On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:53:47 +0100 Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 01:26:56AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:17:30 +0200 Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > can we please add this to checkpatch.pl ?
> > >
> > > > -spinlock_t bpci_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
> > > > +DEFINE_SPINLOCK(bpci_lock);
> >
> > That check is already in checkpatch. Problem is that hardly anyone
> > runs the thing.
> >
> > I think we're ready to wire checkpatch up to a email robot which monitors
> > the mailing lists and sends people nastygrams. I bet that'll be popular ;)
>
> That shouldn't be too hard. checkpatch has been subscribed since birth
> but short circuiting the replies to me only.
>
> I guess the main question is whether to reply-all or reply just to the
> sender when commenting on patches. Perhaps for the sanity of the rest
> of the world, just the sender makes most sense.
For sure.
> > (I'd love it if it could detect wordwrapped and tab-expanded patches, too.
> > You wouldn't _believe_...)
>
> It should pick up both of these, the word-wrapping is already there as
> we detect lines within patch segments which don't start '[ +-]', the
> tab-expanded should be picked up as every line would be "don't use
> spaces use tabs for indent".
OK.
Often patches are wordwrapped only in the header:
--- old/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c 2007-04-26 12:02:46.000000000 -0400
+++ linux/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c 2007-04-29 08:29:27.000000000 -0400
@@ -413,6 +413,24 @@
ap->ops->irq_on(ap);
comes through as
--- old/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c 2007-04-26
12:02:46.000000000 -0400
+++ linux/drivers/ata/libata-sff.c 2007-04-29
08:29:27.000000000 -0400
@@ -413,6 +413,24 @@
ap->ops->irq_on(ap);
and the rest of the patch is good.
<tests it>
Yup, fooled you ;)
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