Re: latest checkpatch

Jeff Garzik
2007-10-18T20:58:06Z

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> there's "checkpatch --file" for complete files, so it can see the full
> context if the user passes it in.

This is new, I guess?

[jgarzik@pretzel linux-2.6]$ scripts/checkpatch.pl --file
drivers/ata/libata-eh.c
Unknown option: file

Such an option would be quite useful, but does not appear in upstream.

Also, upstream lacks support for "-h" and "--help" so you get to guess
at the options.

Jeff