[PATCH] reformat_with_checkpatch: Add automation to checkpatch

[Greg KH]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 11:29:37AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-07-12 at 10:55 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > Yes, the warnings are all due to line-length, but Joe, you shouldn't add
> > a patch that causes more checkpatch warnings than before :)
> 
> Yeah, that was intentional though.
> 
> This script does a series of relatively discrete changes.
> 
> Lindent would more or less work, but it's _horrible_ at
> wrapping overlong lines and merges all types of changes
> together.

Oh I agree, I don't want to see Lindent, but maybe, if the patch adds
checkpatch warnings, it should be at least "flagged" as maybe a problem?

> > While I always want to see more developers get involved with kernel
> > development, there should be a minimum barrier to entry.  And that
> > barrier is the knowledge of the C language, and knowledge of how to edit
> > a text file, and use git.  This script takes that barrier away, for
> > whitespace cleanups, with not much real use overall.
> > 
> > So, I'll keep my local copy of this script now, just to have fun with at
> > times when I'm bored.  But I don't think it should be merged, as-is.
> 
> Dunno, I still think it's useful.

For you, and me, but the world?

Would you want to be on the receiving end of this patch script?  I
don't, and I'm willing to take almost any patch cleanup for staging
code.  I think that says something :)

> Maybe when you get new code, you might run it through a
> script like this before committing it.

I will keep it for me, like I said.

thanks,

greg k-h