The patch titled checkpatch: suggest cleanpatch and cleanfile when appropriate has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-suggest-cleanpatch-and-cleanfile-when-appropriate.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: checkpatch: suggest cleanpatch and cleanfile when appropriate From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> When we hit types of whitespace which may be fixed by scripts/cleanpatch and scripts/cleanfile suggest their use in our report. Suggested-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-suggest-cleanpatch-and-cleanfile-when-appropriate scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-suggest-cleanpatch-and-cleanfile-when-appropriate +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -103,6 +103,8 @@ for my $key (keys %debug) { die "$@" if ($@); } +my $rpt_cleaners = 0; + if ($terse) { $emacs = 1; $quiet++; @@ -1389,6 +1391,7 @@ sub process { } elsif ($rawline =~ /^\+.*\S\s+$/ || $rawline =~ /^\+\s+$/) { my $herevet = "$here\n" . cat_vet($rawline) . "\n"; ERROR("trailing whitespace\n" . $herevet); + $rpt_cleaners = 1; } # check for Kconfig help text having a real description @@ -1450,6 +1453,7 @@ sub process { $rawline =~ /^\+\s* \s*/) { my $herevet = "$here\n" . cat_vet($rawline) . "\n"; ERROR("code indent should use tabs where possible\n" . $herevet); + $rpt_cleaners = 1; } # check for space before tabs. @@ -2842,6 +2846,15 @@ sub process { print "\n" if ($quiet == 0); } + if ($quiet == 0) { + # If there were whitespace errors which cleanpatch can fix + # then suggest that. + if ($rpt_cleaners) { + print "NOTE: whitespace errors detected, you may wish to use scripts/cleanpatch or\n"; + print " scripts/cleanfile\n\n"; + } + } + if ($clean == 1 && $quiet == 0) { print "$vname has no obvious style problems and is ready for submission.\n" } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are checkpatch-fix-regressions-in-fix-handling-of-leading-spaces.patch checkpatch-types-may-sit-on-a-line-on-their-own.patch checkpatch-suggest-cleanpatch-and-cleanfile-when-appropriate.patch checkpatch-ensure-we-do-not-collapse-bracketed-sections-into-constants.patch checkpatch-handle-casts-better-fixing-false-categorisation-of-as-binary.patch checkpatch-returning-errno-typically-should-be-negative.patch checkpatch-add-check-for-space-after-struct-union-and-enum.patch checkpatch-simplify-and-consolidate-missing-space-after-checks.patch checkpatch-ensure-kconfig-help-checks-only-apply-when-we-are-adding-help.patch checkpatch-check-for-incorrect-permissions.patch checkpatch-add-additional-attribute-defines.patch checkpatch-update-copyright-dates.patch checkpatch-clean-up-structure-definition-macro-handline.patch checkpatch-handle-export_symbol-for-device_attr-and-similar.patch checkpatch-statement-block-context-analyser-should-look-at-sanitised-lines.patch checkpatch-version-031.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html