On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Dan Carpenter wrote: > I wrote a script to check that a patch only changes white space. > It compiles the files before and after the patch is applied and > verifies that they are the same. > > You'll need to compile smatch: > git pull git://repo.or.cz/smatch.git > make > cd /path/to/kernel/src/ > /path/to/smatch_scripts/whitespace_only.sh <patch> > > Adding or removing parenthesis and curly braces counts as a code > change. Changes to comments, #if 0, white space changes do not. > > You can fix a lot of style violations if you limit yourself to > adding and removing tabs, spaces and new lines. Then the next > patch could remove unneeded parenthesis. It would be easier to > audit that way instead of everything mixed together. > > regards, > dan carpenter > > PS. I feel really bad slagging the newbies trying to help. > Could we fix checkpatch.pl to not complain about line lengths? I hope not... Are newbies really put off by having to add a newline here and there? julia > Also could we tell them to stay in staging where no one cares > about git blame? > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
