Re: Usage of checkpatch.pl for other projects

[Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre.ledru@scilab.org>]

Le mardi 17 août 2010 à 17:01 +0100, Andy Whitcroft a écrit :
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:37:54AM +0100, Sylvestre Ledru wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I saw the very interesting presentation of Greg at the last FOSDEM where
> > he explained how to write a patch of the kernel. 
> > 
> > During his presentation, he presented the script checkpatch.pl which
> > checks the coding style of a patch / file. 
> > 
> > For a while, I have been looking for such script which can check the
> > compliance of a source code against a coding policy.
> > 
> > Obviously, the coding style of my project is not exactly the same as he
> > Kernel one. 
> > 
> > Therefor, I would like to know if there is any plan of making a
> > dedicated project of this piece of software to allow usage of it for
> > other projects.
> > If it is not the case, is it possible to contribute to change the
> > behavior of the policy check (of course, disable by default for kernel
> > hackers) ?
> 
> An interesting question.  Cirtianly most of its behaviour is kernel
> centric.  The source kinda lives outside the kernel with its tests
Is there a dedicated website for this project ?

> so could be consumed by other projects (though we do keep a copy in the
> kernel tree too).  If changes could be conditional on the project I
> could see it being possible.  What sort of differences are you thinking
> about.
At first, mainly basic things like space or not before a brace, if a
brace should be on the same line as the if or not, etc. This kind of
basic things.

Sylvestre

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