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Since commit 1f65f947a6a8 ("checkpatch: add checks for question mark and
colon spacing") back in 2008, checkpatch has reported false positive for
asm volatile uses of "::" checkpatch thinks colons should always have
spaces around it.
Add an exception for colons with colons on either side for this valid asm
volatile (and c++) use.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Yehuda Yitschak <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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If a patch touches multiple files, the --fix and --fix-inplace option
doesn't keep the proper line count and makes the new patch file not able
to be applied via bad offset line numbers when lines are added or deleted
by the --fix option.
Dunno how that extra backslash snuck in there.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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ENOSYS means that a nonexistent system call was called. We have a
bad habit of using it for things like invalid operations on
otherwise valid syscalls. We should avoid this in new code.
Pervasive incorrect usage of ENOSYS came up at the kernel summit ABI
review discussion. Let's see if checkpatch can help.
I'll submit a separate patch for include/uapi/asm-generic/errno.h.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Pavel Machek <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]>
Cc: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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const objects shouldn't be __read_mostly. They are read-only.
Marking these objects as __read_mostly causes section conflicts with LTO
linking.
So add a test to try to avoid this issue.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]>
Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Code such as:
x = timercmp(&now, &end, <);
Will currently trigger a checkpatch error. e.g.
ERROR: spaces required around that '<'
This is because the "Ignore operators passed as parameters" check looks
only for a comma following the operator. Improve the check by also
looking for a close parenthesis.
Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff <[email protected]>
Cc: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Add a test for sizeof(foo)/sizeof(foo[0]) that could be ARRAY_SIZE(foo).
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Add another struct to the list of normally const struct types
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]>
Cc: Maxime Coquelin <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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There are #defines with long string constants like:
#define foo "some really long string > 80 columns"
Add a long line exception for them.
Miscellanea:
Use the $String variable for slightly better readability
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Madalin-Cristian Bucur <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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columns
Commit messages lines are sometimes overly long.
Suggest line wrapping at 75 columns so the default git commit log
indentation of 4 plus the commit message text still fits on an 80 column
screen.
Add a checkpatch test for long commit messages lines too.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Cc: David Miller <[email protected]>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <[email protected]>
Cc: Ian Morris <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Currently checkpatch warns when asm/file.h is included and linux/file.h
exists. That conversion can be made when linux/file.h includes asm/file.h
which is not always the case.(See signal.h)
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Using 'const <type> const *' is generally meant to be written 'const
<type> * const'.
Add a test for the miswritten form.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Add a few conditions to the test to find
return (ERRNO);
Make the output message a bit less cryptic too.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Currently checkpatch will fuss if one uses world writable settings in
debugfs files and DEVICE_ATTR uses by testing S_IWUGO but not testing
S_IWOTH, S_IRWXUGO or S_IALLUGO.
Extend the check to catch all cases exporting world writable permissions
including octal values.
[[email protected]: remove stray $]
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Original-patch-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <[email protected]>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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If a codespell dictionary exists, use it if desired. default is off,
maybe it could be turned on later.
codespell's dictionary format allows multiple possible corrections, ignore
that for now and only use the first suggestion.
Also add \b to spelling test so that consecutive misspelled words
are found properly.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Masanari Iida <[email protected]>
Cc: Lucas De Marchi <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Only commit log and patch additions are checked for typos and spelling
errors currently. Add a check of the email subject line too.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Jani Nikula <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Jani Nikula <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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The "no space is necessary after a cast" sizeof exclusion doesn't work
properly.
The test reports a false positive for code like:
BUILD_BUG_ON(sizeof(struct batadv_bla_claim_dst) != 6);
Make it work, simplify the exclusions, and add some comments.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Marek Lindner <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Uses of struct of_device_id are most commonly const.
Suggest using it as such.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Naming the tool that found an issue in the subject line isn't very useful.
Emit a warning when a common tool (currently checkpatch, sparse or
smatch) is in the subject line.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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The preferred style for a commit reference in a commit log is:
commit <foo> ("<title line>")
A recent commit removed this check for parentheses. Add it back.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Some prefer code to have spaces around arithmetic so instead of:
a = b*c+d;
suggest
a = b * c + d;
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Just neatening...
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Code like:
if (a < sizeof(<type>) &&
and
{ .len = sizeof(<type>) },
incorrectly emits that warning, so add more exceptions to avoid
the warning.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Improve the format specifier test by removing any %% before looking for
any remaining % format specifier.
Signed-off-by: Heba Aamer <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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There's a --strict test for these blank lines.
Add the ability to automatically remove them with --fix.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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bsd and sysv use different typedefs for unsigned types.
These are in types.h but not in checkpatch, so add them to checkpatch's
ability to know types.
This can avoid false positives for code like:
void foo(void)
{
int x;
uint y;
[...];
}
where checkpatch incorrectly emits a warning for "missing a blank line
after declarations".
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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If a git commit description is split on consecutive lines, coalesce it
before testing.
This allows:
commit <foo> ("some long
description")
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Paul Bolle <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Paul Bolle <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Add a test for probably likely/unlikely misuses where the comparison is
likely misplaced
if (likely(foo) > 0)
vs
if (likely(foo > 0))
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Jaeger <[email protected]>
Cc: Julia Lawall <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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The git commit message can be confusing,
Try to clarify the message a bit to reduce the confusion when emitted.
Show the correct form using
Please use git commit description style 'commit <12+ chars of sha1> ("<title line>")'
and if the git commit sha1 is unique, show
the right sha1 to use with the actual title
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Original-patch-by: Prarit Bhargava <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Chris Rorvick <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Prarit Bhargava <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Baluta <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Convert all the comments to spaces before testing for single statement
macros.
Reported-by: Valdis Kletnieks <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Discourage the use of keyword 'boolean' for type definition attributes of
config options as support for it will be dropped later on.
See http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Jaeger <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Paul Bolle <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Paul Bolle <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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KERN_<LEVEL> is never redundant with printk_ratelimited or printk_once.
(Except perhaps in the sense that you could use e.g. pr_err_ratelimited
or pr_err_once, but that would apply to printk as well).
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Just like "__cold", ignore the __pure gcc attribute macro so pointer
warnings aren't generated for uses like "int * __pure fn(...)"
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Add world writable permissions tests for the various functions like
debugfs etc...
Add $String type for $FuncArg so that string constants are matched.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Since commit fe7c36c7bde1 ("Makefile: Build with -Werror=date-time if
the compiler supports it"), use of __DATE__, __TIME__, and __TIMESTAMP__
has not been allowed.
As this test is gcc version specific (> 4.9), it hasn't prevented a few
new uses from creeping into the kernel sources.
Make checkpatch complain about them.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Original-patch-by: Rasmus Villemoes <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Add --fix option to coalesce string fragments.
This does not coalesce string fragments that have newline terminations or
are otherwise exempted.
Other miscellanea:
o move all the string tests together.
o fix get_quoted_string function for tab characters
o fix concatination typo
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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It seems there are more and more uses of "if (!ptr)" in preference to "if
(ptr == NULL)" so add a --strict test to emit a message when using the
latter form.
This also finds (ptr != NULL).
Fix it too if desired.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg KH <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Emit a warning when single line string coalescing occurs.
Code that uses compiler string concatenation on a single line like:
printk("foo" "bar");
is generally better to read concatenated like:
printk("foobar");
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Using BIT(foo) and BIT_ULL(bar) is more common now. Suggest using these
macros over #defines with 1<<value.
Add a --fix option too.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Cc: David Miller <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Checkpatch flags CamelCase identifiers in strict mode, but it has a
feature to ignore parts with only two characters to allow for SI units
like mV or uA. Unfortunately, not all SI units fit in two characters, and
not all are lower case followed by upper case.
This patch adds hardcoded detection for frequency and 1024-based size
units (Hz/KHz/MHz/GHz/THz and KiB/MiB/GiB/TiB), since allowing any three
character combinations might be too lenient. The list can later be
expanded as needed.
Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Peter Hurley wrote:
The use of older function ptr calling style, (*fn)(), makes static
analysis more error-prone; replace with modern fn() style.
So make checkpatch emit a --strict test for that condition.
Update the unnecessary parentheses test for dereferencing
objects at the same time and create a $fix mechanism too.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Hurley <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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When files are being added/moved/deleted and a patch contains an update to
the MAINTAINERS file, assume it's to update the MAINTAINERS file correctly
and do not emit the "does MAINTAINERS need updating?" message.
Reported by many people.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Shift has a higher precedence that mask so warn when a mask then shift
operation is done without parentheses around the mask.
This test works well for a right shift, but the left shift is pretty
commonly done correctly so only warn on the right shift.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Commit 66b47b4a9dad ("checkpatch: look for common misspellings") made it
difficult to use checkpatch via a symlink.
Fix that and make a missing spelling.txt file non-fatal. Emit a warning
when the spelling.txt file can not be opened.
Reference: http://xkcd.com/1172/
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Jani Nikula <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Jani Nikula <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Add an 'and' to the sentence so that it looks better:
WARNING: debugfs_remove(NULL) is safe and this check is probably not required
Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <[email protected]>
Cc: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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sizeof(foo) is not a cast, allow a space after it.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Kalle Valo <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Using weak declarations can have unintended link defects. The __weak on
the declaration causes non-weak definitions to become weak.
Emit an error on its use.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Using code like:
int foo , bar;
is not preferred to:
int foo, bar;
so emit an error on this style.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Warn on probable misuses of logging functions with KERN_<LEVEL>
like pr_err(KERN_ERR "foo\n");
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Add an exception to the return before else warning when the line
following it is also a return like:
if (foo)
return bar;
else
return baz;
This form of a test then return is at least as readable as
if (foo)
return bar;
return baz;
so don't emit a warning on the first form.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Elshad Mustafayev <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Check for misspellings, based on Debian's lintian list. Several false
positives were removed, and several additional words added that were
common in the kernel:
backword backwords
invalide valide
recieves
singed unsinged
While going back and fixing existing spelling mistakes isn't a high
priority, it'd be nice to try to catch them before they hit the tree.
In the 13830 commits between 3.15 and 3.16, the script would have noticed
560 spelling mistakes. The top 25 are shown here:
$ git log --pretty=oneline v3.15..v3.16 | wc -l
13830
$ git log --format='%H' v3.15..v3.16 | \
while read commit ; do \
echo "commit $commit" ; \
git log --format=email --stat -p -1 $commit | \
./scripts/checkpatch.pl --types=typo_spelling --no-summary - ; \
done | tee spell_v3.15..v3.16.txt | grep "may be misspelled" | \
awk '{print $2}' | tr A-Z a-z | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
21 'seperate'
17 'endianess'
15 'sucess'
13 'noticable'
11 'occured'
11 'accomodate'
10 'interrup'
9 'prefered'
8 'unecessary'
8 'explicitely'
7 'supress'
7 'overriden'
7 'immediatly'
7 'funtion'
7 'defult'
7 'childs'
6 'succesful'
6 'splitted'
6 'specifc'
6 'reseting'
6 'recieve'
6 'changable'
5 'tmis'
5 'singed'
5 'preceeding'
Thanks to Joe Perches for rewrites, suggestions, additional misspelling
entries, and testing.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Cc: Masanari Iida <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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