Re: [Qemu-devel] [V3,1/7] nios2: Add disas entries

[Sandra Loosemore <sandra@codesourcery.com>]

On 11/06/2016 08:55 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 11:50:25PM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote:
>> Add nios2 disassembler support. This patch is composed from binutils files
>> from commit "Opcodes and assembler support for Nios II R2". The files from
>> binutils used in this patch are:
>>
>>      include/opcode/nios2.h
>>      include/opcode/nios2r1.h
>>      include/opcode/nios2r2.h
>>      opcodes/nios2-opc.c
>>      opcodes/nios2-dis.c
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
>> Cc: Chris Wulff <crwulff@gmail.com>
>> Cc: Jeff Da Silva <jdasilva@altera.com>
>> Cc: Ley Foon Tan <lftan@altera.com>
>> Cc: Sandra Loosemore <sandra@codesourcery.com>
>> Cc: Yves Vandervennet <yvanderv@altera.com>
>> ---
>> V3: No change
>> V2: Replace the nios2.c with GPL2 licensed version
>
> checkpatch.pl reports:
>
> total: 1967 errors, 150 warnings, 3559 lines checked
>
> on this file. When applying it, git reports a number of whitespace problems.
>
> Is that expected ?
>
> Guenter

I don't know what checkpatch.pl is, or what "errors" it might be 
complaining about, but I'd strongly discourage doing anything to this 
code that would cause it to diverge from the binutils code it was 
derived from, even trivial whitespace changes.  That would only 
complicate propagating updates to the code to both components.  (I can't 
say I have any such patches in my queue right now, but I also can't rule 
out such changes in the future....)

-Sandra the nios2 binutils maintainer