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add a trivial patch style checker
authorAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Fri, 1 Jun 2007 07:46:48 +0000 (00:46 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 1 Jun 2007 15:18:28 +0000 (08:18 -0700)
commit0a920b5b666d0be8141bd1ce620fffa7de96b81b
tree9de51d4073895f72201040d4c7913dcc83b9ed4e
parentbc913b1899ce0c15ec496d1aa121c36785e0528a
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 <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/SubmitChecklist
Documentation/SubmittingPatches
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
MAINTAINERS
scripts/checkpatch.pl [new file with mode: 0644]