Re: [PATCH] fixed coding style issues

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 15:44 +0800, Baodong Chen wrote:
> i want to participate in and to start from
> fixing simple issues!

That's fine Baodong.  Welcome.

> how could i choose issues form checkpatch's output to find which
> should be fixed which are
> not?

checkpatch output is merely a guide for submission of patches
to conform to some generic "kernel style".  I think there are
times when really ugly code should have a pass to make it more
"kernel style" like.  Most of those cleanup type changes should
be done only to code in the "drivers/staging" directory.

I think most of the time, unless you are also fixing some other
underlying code defect or shortcoming, checkpatch only cleanups
to existing code are best avoided.

I suggest for now, until you are really comfortable with the
preferred style, you confine yourself to drivers/staging.

> or checkpatch.pl should be updated??

You could work on that too.

One possibility is to write a utility to take checkpatch output
and generate patches automatically, or perhaps extend checkpatch
itself to do that.  (ie: add a --fix option)

cheers, Joe