Re: [Ksummit-2013-discuss] [PATCH] checkpatch: Add comment about updating Documentation/CodingStyle

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>]

Em Mon, 2 Sep 2013 11:19:01 -0700
Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> escreveu:

> Patches to checkpatch that add new style rules should also change
> Documentation/CodingStyle to document those new style rules; add a
> comment to that effect to the top of scripts/checkpatch.pl.

Well, you forgot to c/c LKML on this patch; I think that KS2013 is not the
proper list to review this patch ;)

> 
> Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 2ee9eb7..ba65ea6 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
>  # (c) 2007,2008, Andy Whitcroft <apw@uk.ibm.com> (new conditions, test suite)
>  # (c) 2008-2010 Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
>  # Licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL License version 2
> +#
> +# This file does not define the kernel coding style; Documentation/CodingStyle
> +# does.  If you add a new style test to this file, add the corresponding style
> +# rule it enforces to Documentation/CodingStyle.
>  

Agreed with that. I would also add another comment there: "in case of
conflicts between checkpatch.pl and Documentation/CodingStyle, the latter
takes precedence."

Anyway,

Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>

>  use strict;
>  use POSIX;

Regard
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Cheers,
Mauro