From 0a920b5b666d0be8141bd1ce620fffa7de96b81b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Whitcroft Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 00:46:48 -0700 Subject: add a trivial patch style checker We are seeing increasing levels of minor patch style violations in submissions to the mailing lists as well as making it into the tree. These detract from the quality of the submission and cause unnessary work for reviewers. As a first step package up the current state of the patch style checker and include it in the kernel tree. Add instructions suggesting running it on submissions. This adds version v0.01 of the checkpatch.pl script. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Dave Jones Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- MAINTAINERS | 16 ++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'MAINTAINERS') diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 4cc17b993b6a..61a970823a6e 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -30,8 +30,11 @@ trivial patch so apply some common sense. job the maintainers (and especially Linus) do is to keep things looking the same. Sometimes this means that the clever hack in your driver to get around a problem actually needs to become a - generalized kernel feature ready for next time. See - Documentation/CodingStyle for guidance here. + generalized kernel feature ready for next time. + + PLEASE check your patch with the automated style checker + (scripts/checkpatch.pl) to catch trival style violations. + See Documentation/CodingStyle for guidance here. PLEASE try to include any credit lines you want added with the patch. It avoids people being missed off by mistake and makes @@ -972,6 +975,15 @@ M: johannes@sipsolutions.net L: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained +CHECKPATCH +P: Andy Whitcroft +M: apw@shadowen.org +P: Randy Dunlap +M: rdunlap@xenotime.net +P: Joel Schopp +M: jschopp@austin.ibm.com +S: Supported + COMMON INTERNET FILE SYSTEM (CIFS) P: Steve French M: sfrench@samba.org -- cgit v1.2.3