Re: [kvm-unit-tests PATCH v8 01/10] docs: mention checkpatch in the README

[Alex Bennée]

Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 06:46:41PM +0000, Alex Bennée wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
>> ---
>>  README.md | 2 ++
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>> 
>> diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
>> index b498aaf..5db48e5 100644
>> --- a/README.md
>> +++ b/README.md
>> @@ -182,3 +182,5 @@ the code files.  We also start with common code and 
>> finish with unit test
>>  code. git-diff's orderFile feature allows us to specify the order in a
>>  file.  The orderFile we use is `scripts/git.difforder`; adding the config
>>  with `git config diff.orderFile scripts/git.difforder` enables it.
>> +
>> +Please run the kernel's ./scripts/checkpatch.pl on new patches
>
> This is a bit of a problem for kvm-unit-tests code which still has a mix
> of styles since it was originally written with a strange tab and space
> mixed style. If somebody is patching one of those files we've usually
> tried to maintain the original style rather than reformat the whole
> thing (in hindsight maybe we should have just reformatted). We're also
> more flexible with line length than Linux, although Linux now only warns
> for anything over 80 as long as it's under 100, which is probably good
> enough for us too. Anyway, let's see what Paolo and Thomas say. Personally
> I wouldn't mind adding this line to the documentation, so I'll ack it.
> Anyway, we can also ignore our own advise when it suits us :-)
>
> Acked-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>

I can make the wording more weaselly:

 We strive to follow the Linux kernels coding style so it's recommended
 to run the kernel's ./scripts/checkpatch.pl on new patches.

I added this reference because on the older iterations of these test
divergence from the kernel coding style was pointed out and I've fixed
them in this iteration.

>
> Thanks,
> drew


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Alex Bennée