Re: patch style checks

[jschopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>]

>>
>> Methinks it should do `exit 1' if anything was detected.
> 
> [Joel in case you'd not spotted this discussion, your
> patchstylecheckemail script was found ...  Also this has produced a
> little patch series improving the tool.  Where would you like that sent?]

Heh.  It's pretty crude but I've found it useful even as crude as it is.  I have been 
doing library work instead of kernel work for a little more than a year so I haven't been 
improving it.  That said, I'd be happy to see patches as I expect I'll do kernel work 
again in the future.  I had made a project page for it here: 
http://code.google.com/p/patchstylecheck/

I'll maintain it if people want to send me patches.  I also added Andy to the svn 
commiters list awhile back, so you could bug him as well.

> 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 appears to contian some 4313 commits in total!!!  Of
> these some 886 failed the style check; over 20%.  Obviously some of
> these will be false positives, or actually better as they are than made
> compliant.  I did have a quick look over a sample of the errors and bad
> use of space at the start and end of line, plus overlength lines, and
> the lack of spaces round operators seem to be the predominant errors
> therein.

Whitespace damage is the predominant one I've seen as well.  When I was developing it I 
fed it a number of lkml patches at random and fixed all the false positives I encountered.