Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.04

From: James Ketrenos
Date: Fri Jun 08 2007 - 20:36:03 EST


Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> This version brings a some new tests, and a host of changes to fix
> false positives, of particular note:
>
> - check for and report #if 0
> - extend checking of line lengths and spacing for .pl, .sh etc
> - extends the pointer type checks to multiple levels
> - updates printk handling to track newlines
> - adds a wrapped patch detector
> - drops the leading component of the filenames
> - extends switch indent handling to switch statmentes rooted in
> the context
> - adds foo * bar single pointer checks

I just wanted to say Thank You for putting checkpatch.pl together.

I've only used v0.1 here (its what showed up in wireless-dev) but
it made pruning through the iwlwifi sources to clean things up a
very manageable task.

Great job so far.

Thanks,
James
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