Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:02:20 +0000 | From | Andy Whitcroft <> | Subject | Re: checkpatch.pl is getting too slow |
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On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 10:55:07AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > Hi Andy, > > I've noticed that checkpatch.pl is getting slower and slower when run on > a whole file, but yesterday I realized that it now is pretty much > unusable: > > $ time ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --file drivers/staging/uc2322/aten2011.c > > <snip> > total: 168 errors, 126 warnings, 3939 lines checked > > drivers/staging/uc2322/aten2011.c has style problems, please review. If any of these errors > are false positives report them to the maintainer, see > CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS. > > real 8m7.924s > user 8m7.058s > sys 0m0.116s
That is scarey indeed. Something is very wrong in there if it went back to a more reasonable 10's of seconds with a few patches. I will have a look at the file you attached and see what I can find.
Thanks for the heads up.
-apw
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