Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] Regarding "Linux Kernel: Evaluate and Improve checkpatch.pl"

["Ayush" <ayush@disroot.org>]

August 24, 2020 3:36 PM, "Ayush" <ayush@disroot.org> wrote:

> August 22, 2020 1:36 PM, "Lukas Bulwahn" <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 21 Aug 2020, Ayush wrote:
>> 
>>> August 17, 2020 3:13 PM, "Lukas Bulwahn" <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dear Ayush,
>>> 
>>> The zeroth task is to learn suitable netiquette for the communication with
>>> the kernel community.
>>> 
>>> First, please do not top-post.
>>> 
>>> A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right.
>>> Q: Why should I start my reply below the quoted text?
>>> 
>>> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>>> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>>> 
>>> A: The lost context.
>>> Q: What makes top-posted replies harder to read than bottom-posted?
>>> 
>>> A: Yes.
>>> Q: Should I trim down the quoted part of an email to which I'm
>>> replying?
>>> 
>>> Second, please always CC: linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org.
>>> 
>>> Third, set up your email client according to the kernel community rules.
>>> 
>>> Then, the first task is to run checkpatch.pl on a few kernel patches and
>>> collect the results. When you have that, please share your script with
>>> me, e.g., in a github repository.
>>> 
>>> Hints to the first task:
>>> 
>>> Can you create a list of all non-merge commits that were added in the
>>> version v5.8 of the kernel, i.e., all non-merge commits that are in v5.8
>>> and not already in v5.7?
>>> 
>>> Can you share the script/command you executed and the resulting list on
>>> github?
>>> 
>>> Can you run your script on all commits of this list above and record
>>> all checkpatch.pl reports, and store them in your github repository?
>>> 
>>> Can you suggest ideas how to aggregate the findings and create a
>>> statistics? For example: Which type of error is reported most?
>>> Can you implement that idea?
>>> 
>>> I also suggest to have a look at
>>> the options ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --list-types and
>>> ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --show-types. The option --show-types changes
>>> the output of checkpatch.pl to list type identifiers, so it is easier
>>> to parse and aggregate the output.
>>> 
>>> Please also share the script you create for that purpose on your
>>> github repository.
>>> 
>>> The second task is to pick one warning that appears often and improve
>>> checkpatch.pl to handle that better and get it accepted by the kernel
>>> community.
>>> 
>>> Hints to the second task follow when the first task is solved.
>>> 
>>> If you fail on any of those tasks, you are out of the selection process.
>>> 
>>> Lukas
>>> 
>>> Sir,
>>> 
>>> I have attempted the task 1 and pushed the same to GitHub.
>>> 
>>> Please have a look and suggest improvements.
>>> 
>>> https://github.com/eldraco19/evalute_improve_checkpatch_pl
>>> 
>>> Please let me know if there are any issues with this.
>> 
>> So far, so good.
>> 
>> Here are the questions we want to answer:
>> 
>> - So what are the 20 categories that occur most?
>> 
>> You are getting close to that answer, but you are not there yet.
>> 
>> Then look at the findings. For those 20 categories, are there specific
>> findings that are multiple times false positives?
>> 
>> So, the script complains about something, but it does not get that the
>> patch author wrote something completely unrelated to the error message.
>> 
>> Lukas
> 
> Sir,
> 
> I tried the given tasks and it can be found here,
> 
> https://github.com/eldraco19/evalute_improve_checkpatch_pl/blob/master/STATS.md
> 
> Please look into it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ayush
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Hello Sir,

Please review my task 1 and please point any issues with my submission.

Thanks,
Ayush
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