Re: checkpatch, a patch checking script.

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On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:18:03 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 23:08:05 -0400 Dave Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > You can find the script at http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/checkpatch/
> 
> hm.
> 
...

> box:/usr/src/25> ~/checkpatch.pl patches/git-powerpc.patch
> Checking patches/git-powerpc.patch:  signoffs = 427       
> kmalloc return shouldn't be cast.
> 10969:+ char *out = (char*)kmalloc(count + 1, GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> Use 'inline' instead of '__inline__'26644:+static __inline__ void atomic_scrub(void *va, u32 size)

Fixed missing \n.

...

> A good start, thanks.  The BUG_ON() thing might be unpopular, but I think it's
> for the best.  It should skip BUILD_BUG_ON though.

BUILD_BUG_ON is now skipped (in my script, not sent to DaveJ yet).

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~Randy
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