Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] tests: introduce tree-wide code style checking

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Jul 04, 2022 at 04:46:53PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jul 2022 at 16:23, Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Historically QEMU has used the 'scripts/checkpatch.pl' script to
> > validate various style rules but there are a number of issues:
> 
> >  meson.build              |   3 +
> >  tests/Makefile.include   |   3 +-
> >  tests/meson.build        |  19 +++
> >  tests/style-excludes.mak |   4 +
> >  tests/style-infra.mak    | 265 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  tests/style.mak          |  24 ++++
> 
> From my point of view the main issue with checkpatch.pl is
> that nobody in the QEMU developers particularly understands
> it or is enthusiastic about trying to add more tests to it
> or adjust the existing ones where QEMU style diverges from
> the kernel style (but nor are we tracking and upgrading to
> newer versions of the kernel's script).
> 
> This seems to be aiming to replace a complex and hard to
> understand perl script with a complex and hard to understand
> makefile. I can't say I'm terribly enthusiastic :-/

Taking that feedback on board, I've proposed a new version which is
written in Python, and uses a plain yaml config file, which I admit
results in an easier to understand and more attractive impl than
this makefile based one.

With regards,
Daniel
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