From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D154C433E0 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2021 15:03:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A65064F5D for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2021 15:03:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S235047AbhBBPD3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Feb 2021 10:03:29 -0500 Received: from mga03.intel.com ([134.134.136.65]:38166 "EHLO mga03.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S234822AbhBBPBA (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Feb 2021 10:01:00 -0500 IronPort-SDR: X8KJKlLwc+2hqotE7fVRKpPB7f2c4I/Bn87sVqn97Q0XO+nKG1GpeQ3nbz9drNq5izorJWq3qD znwQIdbw5ynA== X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6000,8403,9882"; a="180940722" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.79,395,1602572400"; d="scan'208";a="180940722" Received: from fmsmga002.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.26]) by orsmga103.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 02 Feb 2021 07:00:19 -0800 IronPort-SDR: mbSt7PA53ugGhIMr8RjzPt8QGKyFJ0F7jCGOpI00BEsMiCca7FDw79ce31oS5bKtBKlkzm7pQ/ Tel10bxwbZTg== X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.79,395,1602572400"; d="scan'208";a="413617902" Received: from pl-dbox.sh.intel.com (HELO intel.com) ([10.239.159.39]) by fmsmga002.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 02 Feb 2021 07:00:17 -0800 Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2021 22:54:45 +0800 From: Philip Li To: Joe Perches Cc: Dwaipayan Ray , Lukas Bulwahn , Greg KH , linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel , kbuild test robot Subject: Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] Patches from the future - can checkpatch help? Message-ID: <20210202145445.GA14043@intel.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 04:48:04AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > On Mon, 2021-02-01 at 22:41 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote: > > The idea of a bot seems nice though in general. > > People do have all the style checking scripts at their disposal, but still > > we see style issues on the list. > > > > Something similar to the kernel test robot, but for style issues seems nice. > > Is it something the community would like? > > (Adding lkp) > > Maybe yes, but likely it depends on the particular audience so > no, not really. > > The kbuild test robot used to run checkpatch on patches and there > there was negative feedback. I don't know if the robot is still > running checkpatch with some subset of message types. Hi Joe, we had disabled the checkpatch due to low fruit with very limited useful reports. Is there any recommendation like which kind of types can be interested? Thanks > > A thread from 2013: > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20130903003958.GA6855@localhost/ > >