From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759883AbYEEUnp (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 16:43:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753516AbYEEUnf (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 16:43:35 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:47345 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753363AbYEEUnf (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 May 2008 16:43:35 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 13:42:52 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Ingo Molnar Cc: bunk@kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, sam@ravnborg.org, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, hpa@zytor.com Subject: Re: [rfc] the kernel workflow & trivial "global -> static" patches (was: Re: [2.6 patch] make sched_feat_{names,open} static) Message-Id: <20080505134252.c82a64f6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20080505201906.GA900@elte.hu> References: <20080505182942.GA17139@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> <20080505201906.GA900@elte.hu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.4 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 5 May 2008 22:19:06 +0200 Ingo Molnar wrote: > Firstly, the practical problem: today "make namespacecheck" emits way > too many false positives even on an allyesconfig build We don't actually care about what comes out of `make namespacecheck'. We care about the _difference_ in its output when a patch is applied. So a script which reports on what changes a particular patch has upon namespacecheck output might be the way to go. If it is fast enough then it can be run on a per-patch basis alongside checkpatch.