Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Checkpatch Feature Idea: Search directory for files with errors and warnings with -d argument | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 2014 21:23:41 -0700 |
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On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 00:16 -0400, Nick Krause wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 11:38 PM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 2014-07-15 at 22:50 -0400, Nick Krause wrote: > >> I may have not found it myself but if it doesn't exist can we write a > >> feature for checkpatch to be able to recursively > >> search a directory structure with a -d aRrgument in order to make it > >> easier to search larger directories for files that still > >> need cleanup for files having kernel coding style issues. > >linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > xargs already works fine. > > > > git ls-files <dir>/*.[ch] | xargs ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f > > > > I suggest you only use anything like this > > on staging directories. > > > > > > Thanks Joe, > That was what I needed to known :). I was hitting some errors in arch, > so I will run that to see if there are any others. > Cheers Nick
I again suggest you _ONLY_ use checkpatch on staging.
Doing checkpatch only cleanups will not make you a better developer nor give you a good understanding of the code operation.
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