Add a new message type SYMBOLIC_PERMS under the 'Permissions'
subsection. Octal permission bits are easier to read and understand
instead of their symbolic macro names.
Suggested-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Utkarsh Verma <utkarshverma294@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210904082330.14864-1-utkarshverma294@gmail.com
[jc: Tweaked wording as suggested by Dwaipayan Ray]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add a new message type TRAILING_SEMICOLON for the macro definitions
that conclude with a semicolon.
Suggested-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Utkarsh Verma <utkarshverma294@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210904074201.13532-1-utkarshverma294@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add a new message type SPLIT_STRING under the 'Indentation and Line
Breaks' subsection. Checkpatch documentation for the splitting of
quoted strings that appear in userspace, across multiple lines.
Suggested-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Utkarsh Verma <utkarshverma294@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210904073621.12987-1-utkarshverma294@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add and document more checkpatch message types. About 50% of all
message types are documented now.
In addition to this:
- Create a new subsection 'Indentation and Line Breaks'.
- Rename subsection 'Comment style' to simply 'Comments'.
- Refactor some of the existing types to appropriate subsections.
Reviewed-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210614141132.6881-1-dwaipayanray1@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
While include/linux/bitops.h brings in the BIT() macro, it was moved to
include/linux/bits.h in commit 8bd9cb51da ("locking/atomics, asm-generic:
Move some macros from <linux/bitops.h> to a new <linux/bits.h> file").
Since that commit BIT() has moved again into include/vdso/bits.h via
commit 3945ff37d2 ("linux/bits.h: Extract common header for vDSO").
I think the move to the vDSO header can be considered an implementation
detail, so for now update the checkpatch documentation to recommend use
of include/linux/bits.h.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@aj.id.au>
Acked-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210520093949.511471-1-andrew@aj.id.au
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
- Document a couple of more checkpatch message types.
- Add a blank line before all `See:` lines to improve the
rst output.
- Create a new subsection `Permissions` and move a few types
to it.
Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210515132348.19082-1-dwaipayanray1@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
All the error message types now have a verbose description.
Also there are two new groups of message types:
- Macros, Attributes and Symbols
- Functions and Variables
Rearrange the message types to fit these new groups as needed.
Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210322082139.33822-1-dwaipayanray1@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add documentation for kernel script checkpatch.pl.
This documentation is also parsed by checkpatch to
enable a verbose mode.
The checkpatch message types are grouped by usage. Under
each group the types are described briefly. 34 of such
types are documented.
Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210226093827.12700-2-dwaipayanray1@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Jonathan Corbet