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From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
To: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, apw@shadowen.org,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] New script to check coding-style compliance on multiple regular files
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:10:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070929101012.GA12555@uranus.ravnborg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1191015124866-git-send-email-ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>

Hi Erez.

On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 05:32:02PM -0400, Erez Zadok wrote:
> The script calls checkpatch.pl on each file, and formats any error messages
> to comply with standard compiler error messages:
> 
> 	file_name:line_number:error_message
> 
> This is particularly useful when run from within a text editor which can
> parse these error messages and show the user a buffer with the file in
> question, placing the cursor on the offending line (e.g., Emacs's "M-x
> next-error" command, bound by default to C-x `).

The concept is wrong here. If we want checkpatch to generate
message in standard gcc format then we should fix checkpatch and
not add a wrapper script around it.

For checkpatch related patches please forward them to the checkpatch
maintainers.

>From MAINTAINERS:

CHECKPATCH
P:      Andy Whitcroft
M:      apw@shadowen.org
P:      Randy Dunlap
M:      rdunlap@xenotime.net
P:      Joel Schopp
M:      jschopp@austin.ibm.com
S:      Supported



	Sam

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-29 10:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-28 21:31 [PATCH] 0/3 coding standards documentation/code updates Erez Zadok
2007-09-28 21:32 ` [PATCH 1/3] CodingStyle updates Erez Zadok
2007-09-28 21:46   ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-29 14:43   ` Shawn Bohrer
2007-09-29 15:59   ` Scott Preece
2007-09-29 18:01   ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-29 18:29     ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-29 20:21       ` [OT] kbuild syntax extension for ccflags and asflags (was: [PATCH 1/3] CodingStyle updates) Ingo Oeser
2007-09-29 20:24         ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-28 21:32 ` [PATCH 2/3] Update usage string for checkpatch.pl Erez Zadok
2007-09-28 21:32 ` [PATCH 3/3] New script to check coding-style compliance on multiple regular files Erez Zadok
2007-09-29 10:10   ` Sam Ravnborg [this message]
2007-09-29 18:18 ` [PATCH] 0/3 coding standards documentation/code updates Linus Torvalds
2007-09-29 19:56   ` J. Bruce Fields
2007-09-29 20:14     ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-30  2:06     ` Theodore Tso
2007-09-30  3:28       ` Erez Zadok
2007-09-29 21:56   ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-09-30  0:23   ` Erez Zadok
2007-09-30  0:49     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-30  4:01       ` Erez Zadok
2007-09-30 17:40         ` Mark Lord
2007-09-30 17:59           ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-30  2:24   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-09-30  3:00     ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-30  3:29       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-09-30  3:35         ` Linus Torvalds
2007-09-30 17:57         ` Theodore Tso
2007-09-30  3:27     ` Al Viro
2007-09-30  3:39       ` Valdis.Kletnieks

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