Re: [PATCH 0/9] Kconfig: cleanup s390 v2.

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 19:38:23 -0700 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:

> Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 05:24:47PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> >  > It would be neat if someone could create and maintain a new
> >  > scripts/spot-common-mistakes.  Feed it a unified diff and it would complain
> >  > about newly-added code (and only newly-added code) which has busted
> >  > whitespace, adds new semaphores, adds new kernel_thread calls, etc, etc.
> > 
> > years and years ago, when the dinosaurs roamed the land, I hacked up..
> > http://janitor.kernelnewbies.org/scripts/  and then left it by the wayside.
> > Some of the checks it did are actually bogus, but I'm happy to pick that
> > up again if there's interest in it being a useful tool.
> > 
> > In fact, I should probably munge it together with a similar thing
> > I wrote at http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/findbugs/
> > (Warning: scary regexps)
> > 
> >  > It would need to be fairly simple and easily-extensible, as I can
> >  > imagine quite a few things getting added to it.
> >  > 
> >  > (Imagines a procmail rule which just bounces the email if
> >  > spot-common-mistakes failed)
> > 
> > or a git checkin rule that refuses to commit if it fails ;-)
> 
> Yep, I was going to mention your scripts but you beat me to it.
> 
> I'll be glad to help maintain such animals if wanted.
> 

wanted ;)

At least, it would be interesting to investigate the usefulness.  I suspect
it will prove to be very useful for the little things.

Heck, someone could subscribe a robot to all the mailing lists which sends
nastygrams straight back at people who submit broken patches.  We already
need that for tab-replaced and word-wrapped patches.  (ok, we have it -
it's called akpm, but being robotic wearies one)