Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 5 Jun 2007 10:14:07 +0200 | From | Heiko Carstens <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.03 |
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On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 10:46:24AM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > > This version brings a host of changes to cure false positives and > bugs detected on patches submitted to lkml and -mm. It also brings > a number of new tests in response to reviews, of particular note: > > - catch use of volatile
It will warn on "asm volatile (" which it shouldn't.
> - report on architecture specific defines being used
We use architecture specific defines to distinguish between 32 bit and 64 bit code in user space visible header files, since we cannot use CONFIG_64BIT. So this will give us false positives as well. Maybe don't warn for header files in include/asm-* ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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