Re: [RFC] MAINTAINERS tag for cleanup robot

[Joe Perches]

On Sat, 2020-11-21 at 08:50 -0800, trix@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> A difficult part of automating commits is composing the subsystem
> preamble in the commit log.  For the ongoing effort of a fixer producing
> one or two fixes a release the use of 'treewide:' does not seem appropriate.
> 
> It would be better if the normal prefix was used.  Unfortunately normal is
> not consistent across the tree.
> 
> So I am looking for comments for adding a new tag to the MAINTAINERS file
> 
> 	D: Commit subsystem prefix
> 
> ex/ for FPGA DFL DRIVERS
> 
> 	D: fpga: dfl:

I'm all for it.  Good luck with the effort.  It's not completely trivial.

>From a decade ago:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1289919077.28741.50.camel@Joe-Laptop/

(and that thread started with extra semicolon patches too)

> Continuing with cleaning up clang's -Wextra-semi-stmt

> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
[]
> @@ -1567,20 +1567,21 @@ help:
>  	 echo  ''
>  	@echo  'Static analysers:'
>  	@echo  '  checkstack      - Generate a list of stack hogs'
>  	@echo  '  versioncheck    - Sanity check on version.h usage'
>  	@echo  '  includecheck    - Check for duplicate included header files'
>  	@echo  '  export_report   - List the usages of all exported symbols'
>  	@echo  '  headerdep       - Detect inclusion cycles in headers'
>  	@echo  '  coccicheck      - Check with Coccinelle'
>  	@echo  '  clang-analyzer  - Check with clang static analyzer'
>  	@echo  '  clang-tidy      - Check with clang-tidy'
> +	@echo  '  clang-tidy-fix  - Check and fix with clang-tidy'

A pity the ordering of the code below isn't the same as the above.

> -PHONY += clang-tidy clang-analyzer
> +PHONY += clang-tidy-fix clang-tidy clang-analyzer
[]
> -clang-tidy clang-analyzer: $(extmod-prefix)compile_commands.json
> +clang-tidy-fix clang-tidy clang-analyzer: $(extmod-prefix)compile_commands.json
>  	$(call cmd,clang_tools)
>  else
> -clang-tidy clang-analyzer:
> +clang-tidy-fix clang-tidy clang-analyzer:

[]

> diff --git a/scripts/clang-tools/run-clang-tools.py b/scripts/clang-tools/run-clang-tools.py
[]
> @@ -22,43 +22,57 @@ def parse_arguments():
[]
>      parser.add_argument("type",
> -                        choices=["clang-tidy", "clang-analyzer"],
> +                        choices=["clang-tidy-fix", "clang-tidy", "clang-analyzer"],

etc...