Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: get default codespell dictionary path from package location

[Péter Ujfalusi]

Hi Joe,

On 11/10/2021 11:11, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2021-10-11 at 09:32 +0300, Peter Ujfalusi wrote:
>> The standard location of dictionary.txt is under codespell's package, on
>> my machine atm (codespell 2.1, Artix Linux):
>> /usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell_lib/data/dictionary.txt
>>
>> Since we enable the codespell by default for SOF I have constant:
> 
> If you enable it by default, you probably are using a .checkpatch.conf file.

It is enabled via a commit hook and started to fail after codespell
update to 2.1 (when the /usr/share/codespell/dictionary.txt no longer exist)

This is downstream port of checkpatch.pl in sof:
https://thesofproject.github.io

If I would have enabled it locally I would have also specified the
codespellfile in .checkpatch.conf.

> --codespell is not a typical default so I think always doing this test
> regardless of --codespell being enabled is inappropriate.

I tend to agree.

>> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> []
>> @@ -73,6 +73,12 @@ my $git_command ='export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8; git';
>>  my $tabsize = 8;
>>  my ${CONFIG_} = "CONFIG_";
>>
>> +# Override the codespellfile location based on codespell install location
>> +if (which("codespell") ne "" && which("python") ne "") {
>> +	my $codespell_dict = `python -c "import os.path as op; import codespell_lib; print(op.join(op.dirname(codespell_lib.__file__), 'data', 'dictionary.txt'), end='')" 2> /dev/null`;
>> +	$codespellfile = $codespell_dict if (-e $codespell_dict);
>> +}
>> +
> 
> Maybe add a function and/or use something like:
> 
> 	if (($codespell || $help) &&
> 	    which(etc...

Right, so I will move the check after the GetOptions() to have the
$codespell and $help options evaluated.

>>  sub help {
>>  	my ($exitcode) = @_;
>>  
>>
>> @@ -130,7 +136,7 @@ Options:
>>    --ignore-perl-version      override checking of perl version.  expect
>>                               runtime errors.
>>    --codespell                Use the codespell dictionary for spelling/typos
>> -                             (default:/usr/share/codespell/dictionary.txt)
>> +                             (default:$codespellfile)
> 
> I think this should not be changed or only be shown as $codespellfile when
> --codespell is added on the command line

If I run the 'scripts/checkpatch.pl -h' I would like to see the options
and defaults that will be used and I don't expect that the default of
the dictionary.tx would be different between

scripts/checkpatch.pl -h
 default:/usr/share/codespell/dictionary.txt)

scripts/checkpatch.pl --codespell -h
 (default:/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/codespell_lib/data/dictionary.txt)

I think this is not too intuitive.

Now I have a working and consistent version, let's see how that looks like.

> 
>>    --codespellfile            Use this codespell dictionary
>>    --typedefsfile             Read additional types from this file
>>    --color[=WHEN]             Use colors 'always', 'never', or only when output
> 
> 

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Péter