Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Support for generalized use of make C={1,2} via a wrapper program

Joe Perches
2017-12-18T15:30:11Z

On Mon, 2017-12-18 at 14:05 +0100, Knut Omang wrote:
> > Here is a list of the checkpatch messages for drivers/infiniband
> > sorted by type.
> >
> > Many of these might be corrected by using
> >
> > $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f --fix-inplace --types=<TYPE> \
> > $(git ls-files drivers/infiniband/)
>
> Yes, and I already did that work piece by piece for individual types,
> just to test the runchecks tool, and want to post that set once the
> runchecks script and Makefile changes itself are in,

I think those are independent of any runcheck tool changes and
could be posted now. In general, don't keep patches in a local
tree waiting on some other unrelated patch.

Just fyi:

There is a script that helps automate checkpatch "by-type" conversions
with compilation, .o difference checking, and git commit editing.