From: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>,
Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>,
Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>,
Tom Rini <trini@konsulko.com>,
Simon Glass <simon.glass@canonical.com>,
Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] checkpatch: Add --conf-dir option
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:47:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260220114712.GA383689@pevik> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260202144221.76765-2-pvorel@suse.cz>
Hi,
gently ping about the patchset. We can keep the functionality out of tree,
but I suppose more project which use checkpatch.pl would benefit from it.
Kind regards,
Petr
> This allows to directly use project configuration file for projects
> which vendored checkpatch.pl (e.g. LTP or u-boot).
> Options from the configuration file has been read before processing
> command line options with Getopt::Long since the start (000d1cc1829f9)
> because options read from config file needs to be unshifted from command
> line arguments (@ARGV) before processing with Getopt::Long. Therefore
> parse --conf-dir with direct reading @ARGV.
> Signed-off-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
> ---
> @ARGV can be probably processed cleaner.
> Kind regards,
> Petr
> scripts/checkpatch.pl | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 8fffdf9e7f85f..7e19287d452d8 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ my @ignore = ();
> my $help = 0;
> my $configuration_file = ".checkpatch.conf";
> my $def_configuration_dirs = ".:$ENV{HOME}:.scripts";
> +my $configuration_dir = "";
> my $max_line_length = 100;
> my $ignore_perl_version = 0;
> my $minimum_perl_version = 5.10.0;
> @@ -144,12 +145,14 @@ Options:
> is a terminal ('auto'). Default is 'auto'.
> --kconfig-prefix=WORD use WORD as a prefix for Kconfig symbols (default
> ${CONFIG_})
> + --conf-dir=DIR directory with $configuration_file configuration file
> + (default:$def_configuration_dirs)
> -h, --help, --version display this help and exit
> When FILE is - read standard input.
> Script searches for a configuration file $configuration_file in path:
> -$def_configuration_dirs
> +$def_configuration_dirs (can be overwritten by --conf-dir)
> EOM
> exit($exitcode);
> @@ -241,7 +244,31 @@ sub list_types {
> exit($exitcode);
> }
> -my $conf = which_conf($configuration_file, $def_configuration_dirs);
> +# parse --conf-dir before the other options
> +my @argv;
> +while (@ARGV) {
> + my $arg = shift @ARGV;
> + if ($arg eq '--conf-dir') {
> + $configuration_dir = shift @ARGV;
> + die "--conf-dir requires value" unless ($configuration_dir);
> + } elsif ($arg =~ /^--conf-dir=(.+)$/) {
> + $configuration_dir = $1;
> + die "--conf-dir requires value" unless ($configuration_dir);
> + } else {
> + push @argv, $arg;
> + }
> +}
> +@ARGV = @argv;
> +
> +my $conf;
> +if ($configuration_dir) {
> + die "Dir. $configuration_dir does not exist" unless (-d $configuration_dir);
> + $conf = "$configuration_dir/$configuration_file";
> + die "File $conf does not exist" unless (-f $conf);
> +} else {
> + $conf = which_conf($configuration_file, $def_configuration_dirs);
> +}
> +
> if (-f $conf) {
> my @conf_args;
> open(my $conffile, '<', "$conf")
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-20 11:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-02 14:42 [PATCH 1/2] checkpatch: Document config file in help Petr Vorel
2026-02-02 14:42 ` [PATCH 2/2] checkpatch: Add --conf-dir option Petr Vorel
2026-02-20 11:47 ` Petr Vorel [this message]
2026-02-20 17:13 ` Joe Perches
2026-02-23 15:53 ` Petr Vorel
2026-02-23 17:08 ` Joe Perches
2026-02-23 21:38 ` Petr Vorel
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