Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v8 01/10] docs: mention checkpatch in the README

[Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 06:46:41PM +0000, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> ---
>  README.md | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
> index b498aaf..5db48e5 100644
> --- a/README.md
> +++ b/README.md
> @@ -182,3 +182,5 @@ the code files.  We also start with common code and finish with unit test
>  code. git-diff's orderFile feature allows us to specify the order in a
>  file.  The orderFile we use is `scripts/git.difforder`; adding the config
>  with `git config diff.orderFile scripts/git.difforder` enables it.
> +
> +Please run the kernel's ./scripts/checkpatch.pl on new patches

This is a bit of a problem for kvm-unit-tests code which still has a mix
of styles since it was originally written with a strange tab and space
mixed style. If somebody is patching one of those files we've usually
tried to maintain the original style rather than reformat the whole
thing (in hindsight maybe we should have just reformatted). We're also
more flexible with line length than Linux, although Linux now only warns
for anything over 80 as long as it's under 100, which is probably good
enough for us too. Anyway, let's see what Paolo and Thomas say. Personally
I wouldn't mind adding this line to the documentation, so I'll ack it.
Anyway, we can also ignore our own advise when it suits us :-)

Acked-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>

Thanks,
drew