Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.03

Jesper Juhl
2007-06-08T14:34:21Z

On 08/06/07, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> wrote:
[snip]
>
> It's not only about MODULE_AUTHOR, if you consider it rude to limit
> people's names to ASCII, then don't forget that we have printk's like
> Linux agpgart interface v0.102 (c) Dave Jones
>
> What happens if the maintainer changes and it's now
> Linux agpgart interface v0.103 (c) Dave Ønes
>
> Does the console handle it correctly during boot?
> Can all tools that process the syslog cope with it?
>
> Perhaps the answer is in both cases "yes", but it's a completely
> untested area.
>
> We really must have all bugs shaken out and all users using fixed tools
> _before_ we can start outputting UTF-8 - limiting people's names to
> ASCII in not ideal, but IMHO causing breakages for users is a much
> bigger problem.
>

I haven't looked at it in depth yet, but it would seem we already have
a few files that need to be looked at with this in mind. Looks like
it's not exactely a new problem (although all the following could be
in comments of course)...

$ find ./ -name "*.[ch]" | xargs file | grep -i utf
./arch/arm/mach-pxa/leds-trizeps4.c: UTF-8
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./arch/arm/mach-pxa/trizeps4.c: UTF-8
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./arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/file.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/acpi/asus_acpi.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/char/drm/r128_drv.h: UTF-8
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./drivers/char/drm/radeon_irq.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/char/drm/drm_drawable.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/char/drm/drm_pci.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/char/drm/drm_core.h: UTF-8
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./drivers/char/hw_random/omap-rng.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/char/esp.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/char/watchdog/iTCO_vendor_support.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-iop3xx.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/infiniband/core/multicast.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/infiniband/core/sa.h: UTF-8
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./drivers/infiniband/core/sa_query.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0001.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_probe.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/mtd/devices/phram.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/mtd/maps/cfi_flagadm.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/mtd/maps/dbox2-flash.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/mtd/maps/mtx-1_flash.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/mtd/nand/ts7250.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/mtd/nand/cafe_nand.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/mtd/nand/cmx270_nand.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/mtd/nand/cs553x_nand.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/mtd/nand/edb7312.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/mtd/nand/h1910.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/mtd/mtdsuper.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/mtd/ubi/build.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/mtd/ubi/cdev.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/mtd/ubi/debug.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/mtd/ubi/debug.h: UTF-8
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./drivers/mtd/ubi/gluebi.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/mtd/ubi/io.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/mtd/ubi/kapi.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/mtd/ubi/misc.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/mtd/ubi/scan.h: UTF-8
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./drivers/mtd/ubi/ubi.h: UTF-8
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./drivers/mtd/ubi/upd.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/mtd/ubi/vmt.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/mtd/ubi/vtbl.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/mtd/ubi/wl.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/mtd/ubi/eba.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/net/irda/toim3232-sir.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/net/irda/kingsun-sir.c: UTF-8
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./drivers/net/atl1/atl1_hw.h: UTF-8
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./drivers/scsi/atari_NCR5380.c:
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./drivers/scsi/jazz_esp.c:
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./drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.c:
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./drivers/usb/misc/auerswald.c:
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./drivers/video/atafb_iplan2p2.c:
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./drivers/video/atafb_iplan2p4.c:
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./drivers/video/atafb_iplan2p8.c:
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./fs/afs/afs_vl.h:
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./fs/jffs2/acl.c:
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./fs/jffs2/acl.h:
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./fs/jffs2/background.c:
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./fs/jffs2/build.c:
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./fs/jffs2/compr.c:
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./fs/jffs2/compr.h:
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./fs/jffs2/compr_rtime.c:
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./fs/jffs2/compr_rubin.c:
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./fs/jffs2/compr_zlib.c:
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./fs/jffs2/debug.c:
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./fs/jffs2/debug.h:
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./fs/jffs2/dir.c:
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./fs/jffs2/erase.c:
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./fs/jffs2/file.c:
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./fs/jffs2/fs.c:
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./fs/jffs2/gc.c:
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./fs/jffs2/ioctl.c:
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./fs/jffs2/jffs2_fs_i.h:
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./fs/jffs2/nodelist.c:
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./fs/jffs2/nodelist.h:
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./fs/jffs2/os-linux.h:
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./fs/jffs2/symlink.c:
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./fs/jffs2/wbuf.c:
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./fs/jffs2/xattr.h:
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./fs/jffs2/xattr_trusted.c:
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./fs/jffs2/xattr_user.c:
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./fs/jffs2/readinode.c:
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./fs/jffs2/super.c:
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./fs/jffs2/jffs2_fs_sb.h:
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./fs/jffs2/nodemgmt.c:
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./fs/jffs2/scan.c:
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./fs/jffs2/writev.c:
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./fs/jffs2/xattr.c:
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./fs/nls/nls_utf8.c:
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./include/asm-arm/arch-aaec2000/aaec2000.h:
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./include/asm-arm/arch-integrator/platform.h:
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./include/asm-arm/arch-omap/board.h:
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./include/asm-arm/arch-omap/dma.h:
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./include/asm-arm/arch-omap/gpio.h:
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./include/asm-arm/arch-pxa/trizeps4.h:
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./include/asm-m68k/atariints.h: UTF-8
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./include/asm-m68k/atarihw.h: UTF-8
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./include/asm-ppc/hydra.h: UTF-8
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./include/linux/i2c-algo-bit.h: UTF-8
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./include/linux/i2c-algo-pcf.h: UTF-8
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./include/linux/i2c.h: UTF-8
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./include/linux/irda.h: UTF-8
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./include/linux/meye.h: UTF-8
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./include/linux/mtd/super.h: UTF-8
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./include/linux/mtd/mtd.h: UTF-8
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./include/linux/mtd/ubi.h: UTF-8
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./include/linux/sonypi.h: UTF-8
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./include/mtd/ubi-header.h: UTF-8
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./include/mtd/ubi-user.h: UTF-8
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./include/net/irda/irda.h: UTF-8
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./include/net/irda/wrapper.h: UTF-8
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./include/net/irda/af_irda.h: UTF-8
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./kernel/sys.c: UTF-8 Unicode
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./sound/drivers/mts64.c: UTF-8 Unicode
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./sound/oss/es1371.c: UTF-8 Unicode
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./sound/oss/pas2_pcm.c: UTF-8 Unicode
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./sound/oss/trident.c: UTF-8 Unicode
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./sound/pci/ice1712/prodigy192.c: UTF-8 Unicode
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./sound/pci/mixart/mixart.c: UTF-8 Unicode
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