From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754213Ab0CWJog (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Mar 2010 05:44:36 -0400 Received: from santostefano.inria.fr ([193.51.192.151]:41567 "HELO santostefano.inria.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1753740Ab0CWJof (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Mar 2010 05:44:35 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 398 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2010 05:44:34 EDT Subject: Usage of checkpatch.pl for other projects From: Sylvestre Ledru To: Andy Whitcroft , Andrew Morton , Daniel Walker , Joe Perches , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 10:37:54 +0100 Message-ID: <1269337074.12129.4674.camel@korcula.inria.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, I saw the very interesting presentation of Greg at the last FOSDEM where he explained how to write a patch of the kernel. During his presentation, he presented the script checkpatch.pl which checks the coding style of a patch / file. For a while, I have been looking for such script which can check the compliance of a source code against a coding policy. Obviously, the coding style of my project is not exactly the same as he Kernel one. Therefor, I would like to know if there is any plan of making a dedicated project of this piece of software to allow usage of it for other projects. If it is not the case, is it possible to contribute to change the behavior of the policy check (of course, disable by default for kernel hackers) ? Thanks, Sylvestre