Re: [RFC] checkpatch: add option to change warning return value.

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 04:22:46PM -0700, Sarah Sharp wrote:
> 
> BTW, I'm not a perl hacker, and I don't really understand the reporting code,
> so someone who knows it (Andy?) should make the correct patch.  I didn't notice
> before sending, but right now the warning count reporting is bogus, although
> the warnings don't make the script return an error code:
> 

> 
> 
> Note that second-to-last patch should have said 3 warnings.  So my patch needs
> to be changed, but I really do want this functionality.
> 

> > @@ -1096,6 +1099,9 @@ sub report {
> >  
> >  	push(our @report, $line);
> >  
> > +	if ($lazy == 1) {
> > +		return 0;
> > +	}
> >  	return 1;
> >  }
> >  sub report_dump {

Instead of this hunk, have:


diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 58848e3..54ec3d9 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ for my $filename (@ARGV) {
 	}
 	close($FILE);
 	if (!process($filename)) {
-		$exit = 1;
+		$exit = 1 if (!$lazy);
 	}
 	@rawlines = ();
 	@lines = ();


-- Steve