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

Andrew Morton
2007-06-04T18:47:20Z

On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:46:24 +0100
Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> wrote:

> This version brings a host of changes to cure false positives and
> bugs detected on patches submitted to lkml and -mm. It also brings
> a number of new tests in response to reviews, of particular note:
>
> - catch use of volatile
> - allow deprecated functions to be listed in feature-removal-schedule.txt
> - warn about #ifdef's in c files
> - check that spinlock_t and struct mutex use is commented
> - report on architecture specific defines being used
> - report memory barriers without an associated comment

Oy. I ran checkpatch.pl across this patch and it failed to report upon the
new trailing whitespace which you just tried to add.