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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/9] Kconfig: cleanup s390 v2.
    On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:30:11 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

    > But that only applies to things which I merge. There's heaps of stuff
    > coming in via the git trees which is obviously inadequately reviewed - look
    > at all the instances of open-coded kernel_thread() which were merged after
    > the kthread() API was introduced, for example.
    >
    >
    > And other basic stuff like "use mutexes, not semaphores":
    >
    > box:/usr/src/25> grep '^+.*[ ]down[ ]*[(]' patches/git-*.patch | wc -l
    > 32
    >
    >
    >
    > Ever wonder where all those whitespace bugs are coming from?
    >
    > box:/usr/src/25> grep '^+.*[ ]if[(]' patches/git-*.patch | wc -l
    > 265
    > box:/usr/src/25> grep '^+.*[ ]while[(]' patches/git-*.patch | wc -l
    > 35
    >
    >
    > Code which use spaces where it should be using tabs?
    >
    > box:/usr/src/25> grep '^+ ' patches/git-*.patch | wc -l
    > 1346
    >

    It would be neat if someone could create and maintain a new
    scripts/spot-common-mistakes. Feed it a unified diff and it would complain
    about newly-added code (and only newly-added code) which has busted
    whitespace, adds new semaphores, adds new kernel_thread calls, etc, etc.

    It would need to be fairly simple and easily-extensible, as I can
    imagine quite a few things getting added to it.

    (Imagines a procmail rule which just bounces the email if
    spot-common-mistakes failed)


    >
    > Heaven knows how many more serious problems are being snuck into the tree
    > via this route.

    But it won't solve this problem.
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