On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:19:01 +0200 (CEST) Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> On Sep 28 2007 19:03, WANG Cong wrote:
> >
> >Maybe checkpatch.pl needs an option '-W' to turn on/off those vexed "noise".
> >(It seems that 'q|quiet' doesn't do as much as what it hints.)
>
> Make checkpatch.pl a C language parser, then it can handle
> all the whitespace violations without false positives. :-)
Well, yes, that's the root problem.
checkpatch is a regex tool, not a C parser.
And like Andy commented in another mail in this thread, (esp. since
it's not a C parser), it's just a guide.
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~Randy
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