From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>,
Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] Patches from the future - can checkpatch help?
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2021 04:48:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d5277573215624098109e888c01f4b10fa917439.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABJPP5Dt6KyoaMr-dS9425rozKoCyiPgx9WfoeY2541Aq3MF=w@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 2021-02-01 at 22:41 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> The idea of a bot seems nice though in general.
> People do have all the style checking scripts at their disposal, but still
> we see style issues on the list.
>
> Something similar to the kernel test robot, but for style issues seems nice.
> Is it something the community would like?
(Adding lkp)
Maybe yes, but likely it depends on the particular audience so
no, not really.
The kbuild test robot used to run checkpatch on patches and there
there was negative feedback. I don't know if the robot is still
running checkpatch with some subset of message types.
A thread from 2013:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20130903003958.GA6855@localhost/
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>,
Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] Patches from the future - can checkpatch help?
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2021 04:48:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d5277573215624098109e888c01f4b10fa917439.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABJPP5Dt6KyoaMr-dS9425rozKoCyiPgx9WfoeY2541Aq3MF=w@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 2021-02-01 at 22:41 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> The idea of a bot seems nice though in general.
> People do have all the style checking scripts at their disposal, but still
> we see style issues on the list.
>
> Something similar to the kernel test robot, but for style issues seems nice.
> Is it something the community would like?
(Adding lkp)
Maybe yes, but likely it depends on the particular audience so
no, not really.
The kbuild test robot used to run checkpatch on patches and there
there was negative feedback. I don't know if the robot is still
running checkpatch with some subset of message types.
A thread from 2013:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20130903003958.GA6855@localhost/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-02 12:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-01 16:34 Patches from the future - can checkpatch help? Dwaipayan Ray
2021-02-01 16:34 ` [Linux-kernel-mentees] " Dwaipayan Ray
2021-02-01 16:37 ` Greg KH
2021-02-01 16:37 ` Greg KH
2021-02-01 16:50 ` Lukas Bulwahn
2021-02-01 16:50 ` Lukas Bulwahn
2021-02-01 17:11 ` Dwaipayan Ray
2021-02-01 17:11 ` Dwaipayan Ray
2021-02-02 12:48 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2021-02-02 12:48 ` Joe Perches
2021-02-02 14:54 ` Philip Li
2021-02-02 14:54 ` Philip Li
2021-02-01 17:59 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-01 17:59 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-02-01 17:01 ` Dwaipayan Ray
2021-02-01 17:01 ` Dwaipayan Ray
2021-02-02 11:57 ` Greg KH
2021-02-02 11:57 ` Greg KH
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