Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/1] checkpatch: checker for comment block

[Wainer dos Santos Moschetta <wainersm@redhat.com>]

On 12/13/2018 04:01 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 at 17:57, Wainer dos Santos Moschetta
> <wainersm@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Eduardo Habkost pointed out a malformed block of comments on my
>> patch [1] that I had ran checkpatch.pl and no warn/error was
>> reported. Then I realized the script does not catch such as
>> case (or it had a bug).
>>
>> It turns out that checkpatch.pl does not parse comment blocks (If I understood
>> its code correctly...). So I implemented a checker that warns about:
>> 1. block doesn't begin on its own line.
>> Example:
>>    /* blah blah
>>     * and blah blah
>>     */
> I sent a patch to do this a little while back:
>   https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10561557/

Self-NACK my patch in favor of that, which has additional checks (e.g. * 
alignment).

>
> It didn't get applied because Paolo disagreed with having
> our tools enforcing what our style guide says.
>
> Personally I think we should just commit my patch, and then
> we can stop having people manually pointing out where
> submitters' patches don't match CODING_STYLE.

I am afraid that I can't give a firm option on this topic because it 
precedes my existence in this community, regardless I tend to agreed on 
Peter's reasoning.

Thanks!

- Wainer

T

>
> thanks
> -- PMM