From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: joe@perches.com (Joe Perches) Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 10:02:33 -0800 Subject: [Cocci] [PATCH v2 0/5] Support for generalized use of make C={1, 2} via a wrapper program In-Reply-To: <20171216094745.5e41ac51@xeon-e3> References: <20171216094745.5e41ac51@xeon-e3> Message-ID: <1513447353.4647.39.camel@perches.com> To: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr List-Id: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr On Sat, 2017-12-16 at 09:47 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Sat, 16 Dec 2017 15:42:25 +0100 > Knut Omang wrote: > > > This patch series implements features to make it easier to run checkers on the > > entire kernel as part of automatic and developer testing. > > > > This is done by replacing the sparse specific setup for the C={1,2} variable > > in the makefiles with setup for running scripts/runchecks, a new program that > > can run any number of different "checkers". The behaviour of runchecks is > > defined by simple "global" configuration in scripts/runchecks.cfg which can be > > extended by local configuration applying to individual files, directories or > > subtrees in the source. [] > I like the ability to add more checkers and keep then in the main > upstream tree. But adding overrides for specific subsystems goes against > the policy that all subsystems should be treated equally. > > There was discussion at Kernel Summit about how the different > subsystems already have different rules. This appears to be a > way to make that worse. I think that's OK and somewhat reasonable. What is perhaps unreasonable is requiring subsystems with a local specific style to change to some universal style. see comments like: https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/11/689