On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 10:11:49AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote: > On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 15:38 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote: > > > > On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > > > > I wrote a script to check that a patch only changes white space. > > Perhaps you could use #define __LINE__ 0 to avoid > any vertical line position comparison checks? > I tried something similar to that at first but I found that line numbers were used in other ways. In the end, I added a -no-lineno to sparse so it thinks everything is on line 123456. It might be better to just right a perl script that strips out all the whitespace and compares the result blobs before and after the patch. That would handle the #if 0 code as well. regards, dan carpenter > > Maybe checkpatch could be changed to not complain about > 80 characters > > when the line contains a string? > > That's been at least partially done in commit > 691e669ba8c64d31ac08d87b1751e6acfa3ff65e -- 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
