Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:13:10 -0700 | From | Sarah Sharp <> | Subject | [RFC] checkpatch: add option to change warning return value. |
| |
There are a lot of warnings in checkpatch.pl that are rather subjective. For instance, when a line is 81 characters long, and the patch submitter is just cleaning up existing code, a maintainer may not care that checkpatch.pl warns about the over 80-character line. It should be up to the maintainer what warnings they want to pay attention to.
Unfortunately, if you try to run checkpatch.pl as part of a git pre-commit hook and a patch in a series being applied by git-am fails checkpatch.pl, the whole process stops. At that point I usually end up just disabling that git hook, which means I don't see real errors in the patches.
Add an option to checkpatch.pl to print the warnings, but not return an error code when the --lazy flag is present. (Anyone with a better name can pipe up, lazy just seemed to be the opposite to strict.) This allows the maintainer to view the warnings, but still allow the patch application process to continue.
Signed-off-by: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ++++++ 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 4c0383d..4519b5b 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ my $V = '0.31'; use Getopt::Long qw(:config no_auto_abbrev); my $quiet = 0; +my $lazy = 0; my $tree = 1; my $chk_signoff = 1; my $chk_patch = 1; @@ -46,6 +47,7 @@ Options: --terse one line per report -f, --file treat FILE as regular source file --subjective, --strict enable more subjective tests + --lazy print warnings, but don't return an error condition --root=PATH PATH to the kernel tree root --no-summary suppress the per-file summary --mailback only produce a report in case of warnings/errors @@ -80,6 +82,7 @@ GetOptions( 'debug=s' => \%debug, 'test-only=s' => \$tst_only, + 'lazy+' => \$lazy, 'h|help' => \$help, 'version' => \$help ) or help(1); @@ -1096,6 +1099,9 @@ sub report { push(our @report, $line); + if ($lazy == 1) { + return 0; + } return 1; } sub report_dump { -- 1.7.1
| |