* Anyone have ideas for checkpatch improvements ?
@ 2021-01-25 1:55 Joe Perches
2021-01-25 1:59 ` Joe Perches
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* Re: Anyone have ideas for checkpatch improvements ?
2021-01-25 1:55 Anyone have ideas for checkpatch improvements ? Joe Perches
@ 2021-01-25 1:59 ` Joe Perches
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From: Joe Perches @ 2021-01-25 1:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: LKML; +Cc: Dwaipayan Ray, Lukas Bulwahn, Andy Whitcroft
One of the linux-mentees, Dwaipayan Ray, asked me in a private
email for ideas for improvements to checkpatch.
Though I am not his nominal mentor, my response to him was the below.
Does anyone have any more ideas for checkpatch improvements or
enhancements?
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On Fri, 2021-01-15 at 21:02 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> I am actually writing to you
> regarding any possible ideas for checkpatch or any improvements
> you would like to see moving forward with checkpatch.
>
> The last time you had suggested about --fix options. But as we saw
> that maybe some places are better off with it. So do you have
> anything particular in mind?
>
> Again, thanks a lot in advance. Since my mentorship will go on till
> about march, I am indeed in dire need of ideas.
You could:
o Separate the various tests into individual modules that are aggregated
at startup.
o Create a test suite.
o Externally document the thing with use cases, all the named tests
are not particularly documented.
o Add --verbose test descriptions, so 'why this message is emitted'
description is optionally available to / understood by the user.
o Add support for various brace location / required spacing styles.
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