Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Nov 2016 20:29:57 +0100 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/7] kref: Add kref_read() |
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On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 06:02:33PM +0000, Reshetova, Elena wrote:
> >Improve tooling. The patterns shouldn't be _that_ hard to find. Once the tools are good, new code isn't a problem either. > > Moreover, thinking of out of tree drivers: you think they would always > do checkpatch or run some of our tools for security checks?
Also, checkpatch is a horrid example. That's mostly meaningless and menial noise. Nobody wants to run that, even if, between all the gibberish it lists a few sensible things.
Make an always enabled GCC plugin that generates build warns with a low enough false positive rate and nobody will complain.
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