From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org (Greg KH) Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 19:01:14 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] reformat_with_checkpatch: Add automation to checkpatch In-Reply-To: <1405129612.6751.24.camel@joe-AO725> References: <1405128087.6751.12.camel@joe-AO725> <20140712013927.GA30781@kroah.com> <1405129612.6751.24.camel@joe-AO725> Message-ID: <20140712020114.GA12301@kroah.com> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 06:46:52PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 18:39 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 06:21:27PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > > A simple script to run checkpatch --fix for various types of > > > of cleanups. > ] > > drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/lnet/api.h has no obvious style problems and is ready for submission. > > file: description: types: > > Useless use of greediness modifier '+' in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/(^\+.*) {8,8}+ <-- HERE \t/@./scripts/checkpatch.pl line 2217. > [] > > drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/lnet/api.h has no obvious style problems and is ready for submission. > [] > > Is that expected? > > No, I haven't seen that. > > Can you tell me what git tree you're working on? My staging-next branch of staging.git on git.kernel.org > Also, can you use the scripts/checkpatch from -next > tag next-20140711 that will take a bit to checkout, I'll do that afterward. > My system has: > > $ perl --version > > This is perl 5, version 18, subversion 2 (v5.18.2) built for i686-linux-gnu-thread-multi-64int > (with 41 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail) I think this started showing up for me for perl 5.20. Let me go checkout linux-next and see if that fixes anything or not... thanks, greg k-h