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From: James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
To: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
	Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.04
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 15:34:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4669D98F.4090602@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1219bf1ec9ab0dcecc345f9fc3b0f912@pinky>

Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> This version brings a some new tests, and a host of changes to fix
> false positives, of particular note:
> 
>   - check for and report #if 0
>   - extend checking of line lengths and spacing for .pl, .sh etc
>   - extends the pointer type checks to multiple levels
>   - updates printk handling to track newlines
>   - adds a wrapped patch detector
>   - drops the leading component of the filenames
>   - extends switch indent handling to switch statmentes rooted in
>     the context
>   - adds foo * bar single pointer checks

I just wanted to say Thank You for putting checkpatch.pl together.

I've only used v0.1 here (its what showed up in wireless-dev) but
it made pruning through the iwlwifi sources to clean things up a 
very manageable task.

Great job so far.

Thanks,
James

      reply	other threads:[~2007-06-09  0:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-08  9:41 [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.04 Andy Whitcroft
2007-06-08 22:34 ` James Ketrenos [this message]

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