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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: don't warn on every struct without const_structs file
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 16:04:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1484060672.1014.1.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1484060517.2106.38.camel@perches.com>

On Tue, 2017-01-10 at 07:01 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-01-10 at 15:03 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > From: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
> > 
> > The script says that it won't warn:
> > "No structs that should be const will be found [...]"
> > 
> > but then that doesn't work and it warns on every single struct
> > instead, since the regular expression ends up empty. Fix that
> > by checking that it's not empty first.
> 
> nak.
> 
> How does const_structs end up empty for you?

I copied checkpatch elsewhere and ran it.

Regardless, the current code is utterly stupid - it prints a warning
that it won't flag any structs, and then proceeds to flag all structs.

If you must, send a patch to abort() [whatever the perl equivalent is]
when the file can't be found, but as it is, the code is just idiotic.

johannes

  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-10 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-10 14:03 [PATCH] checkpatch: don't warn on every struct without const_structs file Johannes Berg
2017-01-10 15:01 ` Joe Perches
2017-01-10 15:04   ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2017-01-10 16:27     ` Joe Perches
2017-01-10 16:31       ` Johannes Berg
2017-01-10 16:50         ` Joe Perches

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