On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 04:15:24PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > I've sent my review script out a few times before but we have some new > reviewers in staging who maybe haven't tried them. > > rename_rev.pl strips out whitespace changes. We recently had someone > send a re-indent patch that deleted a line of code by mistake. The diff > looked like: > > 18 files changed, 906 insertions(+), 927 deletions(-) > > It would be difficult to spot the bug manually but when you cat it > through rename_rev.pl then it stands out immediately. > > If the patch changes // comments to /* */ then `rename_rev.pl -nc` > strips out most of the comments. > > If the patch re-indents macros then the -ns removes slashes from the > ends of lines. > > Sometimes people pull out some code into a separate function. The -pull > option is supposed to help for that. It sometimes does... > > The other thing that we see a lot in staging is when people change curly > braces around. The -nb option removes curly brace changes. > > Another thing is we had a change which did this: > > -#define HOST_IF_MSG_SCAN ((u16)0) > -(40 lines of similar code) > +#define HOST_IF_MSG_SCAN 0 > +(40 lines of similar code) > > I used rename_rev.pl -e 's/\(\(u16\)(.*)\)/$1/' to make sure nothing > else changed. > > Or if you are making hundreds of functions "static", then I just remove > all the statics by doing rename_rev.pl -ea 's/static//'. The -ea option > stands for Execute on All. > > Oh. And I am also going to include my move_rev.pl, script. That is for > if we move functions from one file to another. > > cat patch | move_rev.pl | rename_rev.pl > > The rename_rev.pl script is sort of crappy, but often it removes a lot > of stuff. It doesn't have to be perfect to be better, I guess. > > What I wish is that there were an -auto option which would find which > variables were renamed. Oh! Oh! I have left out the most important > feature. Say you are renaming variables from SomeName to some_name then > cat patch | rename_rev.pl SomeName some_name TwoName two_name Foo foo > > regards, > dan carpenter Thanks a lot for these, much appreciated, I'll work to add them to my test scripts for patches. greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
