On Fri, 2014-07-11 at 18:34 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 06:21:27PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > A simple script to run checkpatch --fix for various types of > > of cleanups. > > > > This script is useful primarily for staging. > > > > This reformats code to a more CodingStyle conforming style, > > compiles it, verifies that the object code hasn't changed, > > and git commits it too. > > And 'git commits' it? The thought I had was to made it easier to submit "my first kernel patch" correctly. like that tuxradar article you wrote a few years ago. http://www.tuxradar.com/content/newbies-guide-hacking-linux-kernel > Heh, I should just run this myself to clean up > staging and beat everyone else to it... At least for the whitespace noise, you could but I hope it'll encourage a few more people to try kernel patching instead. > I know some people already have private versions of these things, might > as well make it public for all to abuse :) And I hope they can improve it too as it's just a brainless little script. -- 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
