Re: [PATCH V6 2/2] checkpatch: check format of Vec<String> in modules

[Andreas Hindborg]

"Miguel Ojeda" <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Tue, Mar 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM Miguel Ojeda
> <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I think it could be a good idea (it would be lovely to write the
>> checker in Rust -- I also had a checker bot in Python from the old
>> days of the old `rust` branch in GitHub), but `checkpatch.pl` doesn't
>> need a built kernel, so it would be a disadvantage or at least a
>> difference w.r.t. the usual `checkpatch.pl`, and we may not be able to
>> call it from `checkpatch.pl`.
>
> By "built kernel", I don't mean an entire kernel, but rather having to
> call `make` in general, i.e. we could have a target to build just the
> script, but still, it is a difference.

Right, it needs a bit more tool support than running checkpatch.pl
needs. Perhaps we could move it from checkpatch.pl to the rustfmt make
target?


Best regards,
Andreas Hindborg