Re: [PATCH] reformat_with_checkpatch: Add automation to checkpatch

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 06:46:52PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 18:39 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 06:21:27PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > A simple script to run checkpatch --fix for various types of
> > > of cleanups.
> ]
> > drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/lnet/api.h has no obvious style problems and is ready for submission.
> > file: <drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/lnet/api.h> description: <update c90 comment style> types:<c99_comments>
> > Useless use of greediness modifier '+' in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/(^\+.*) {8,8}+ <-- HERE \t/ at ./scripts/checkpatch.pl line 2217.
> []
> > drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/lnet/api.h has no obvious style problems and is ready for submission.
> []
> > Is that expected?
> 
> No, I haven't seen that.
> 
> Can you tell me what git tree you're working on?

My staging-next branch of staging.git on git.kernel.org

> Also, can you use the scripts/checkpatch from -next
> tag next-20140711

that will take a bit to checkout, I'll do that afterward.

> My system has:
> 
> $ perl --version 
> 
> This is perl 5, version 18, subversion 2 (v5.18.2) built for i686-linux-gnu-thread-multi-64int
> (with 41 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

I think this started showing up for me for perl 5.20.  Let me go
checkout linux-next and see if that fixes anything or not...

thanks,

greg k-h
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