Re: [PATCH v4] scripts: checkpatch: warn on Rust panicking methods
From: Onur Özkan
Date: Tue Feb 03 2026 - 10:49:55 EST
On Tue, 3 Feb 2026 08:25:41 -0700
Jkhall81 <jason.kei.hall@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Nice, emails sent from gmail get automatically rejected.
>
> So, Dirk. To satisfy your concerns the current 10ish line
> code update is going to slowly, after many more emails
> written in nano, mutate into a franken-regex-perl beast.
> checkpatch.pl is already huge. I'm not a fan of this
> approach.
Me neither. I wonder why we are doing this instead of using the
unwrap_used and expect_used linting rules from clippy. This would
catch the problem much earlier than checkpath since many of us build
the kernel with CLIPPY=1 flag.
Regards,
Onur
>
> We could just not do this. Right now we are trying to
> get a warning if someone uses rust code that can cause a
> panic. Software Engineers are smart people. What if they
> just don't use rust code that causes panics inside core
> files. Problem solved.
>
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