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From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
To: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
	Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.03
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 10:14:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070605081407.GA809@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0a25fd03117c678f17006c5fcefaaed0@pinky>

On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 10:46:24AM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> 
> This version brings a host of changes to cure false positives and
> bugs detected on patches submitted to lkml and -mm.  It also brings
> a number of new tests in response to reviews, of particular note:
> 
>   - catch use of volatile

It will warn on "asm volatile (" which it shouldn't.

>   - report on architecture specific defines being used

We use architecture specific defines to distinguish between 32 bit and
64 bit code in user space visible header files, since we cannot use
CONFIG_64BIT. So this will give us false positives as well.
Maybe don't warn for header files in include/asm-* ?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-05  8:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-04  9:46 [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.03 Andy Whitcroft
2007-06-04  9:55 ` [PATCH] update feature-removal-schedule.txt to include deprecated functions Andy Whitcroft
2007-06-04 15:49 ` [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.03 jschopp
2007-06-04 16:51   ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-06-04 17:22     ` jschopp
2007-06-05 18:45       ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-06-05  9:56   ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-06-04 16:25 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-04 18:41 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-04 19:08   ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-06-04 19:08     ` Rene Herman
2007-06-04 20:04       ` Randy Dunlap
2007-06-05 18:39         ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-06-08  9:31       ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-06-08 10:08         ` Rene Herman
2007-06-05  8:14 ` Heiko Carstens [this message]
2007-06-06  9:05 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-06-07 14:28   ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-07 14:39     ` Jesper Juhl
2007-06-07 19:34     ` Adrian Bunk
2007-06-07 22:22       ` Alan Cox
2007-06-07 23:21         ` Adrian Bunk
2007-06-07 23:41           ` Alan Cox
2007-06-08  0:04             ` Adrian Bunk
2007-06-08  4:37               ` Jon Masters
2007-06-08  8:58               ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2007-06-08 10:52               ` Alan Cox
2007-06-08 12:39                 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-06-08 14:34                   ` Jesper Juhl
2007-06-08 14:42                     ` Adrian Bunk
2007-06-08 15:16                       ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-08 15:37                         ` Jon Masters
2007-06-08 15:42                         ` Alan Cox
2007-06-08 16:39                           ` Adrian Bunk
2007-06-08 18:43                             ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-06-08 16:03                     ` Roland Dreier
2007-06-07 23:49           ` Adrian Bunk
2007-06-07 19:32   ` Adrian Bunk
2007-06-07 22:18     ` Alan Cox
2007-06-06 11:49 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-06-07 11:46   ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-06-07 11:52     ` Jesper Juhl
2007-06-07 15:16       ` checkpatch.pl: should be executable Andy Whitcroft
2007-06-07 15:33         ` jschopp
2007-06-07 14:22     ` [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.03 Jan Engelhardt

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