Re: Checkpatch Feature Idea: Search directory for files with errors and warnings with -d argument

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 00:16 -0400, Nick Krause wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 11:38 PM, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2014-07-15 at 22:50 -0400, Nick Krause wrote:
> >> I may have not found it myself but if it doesn't exist can we write a
> >> feature for checkpatch to be able to recursively
> >> search a directory structure with a -d aRrgument in order to make it
> >> easier to search larger directories for files that still
> >> need cleanup for files having kernel coding style issues.
> >linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > xargs already works fine.
> >
> > git ls-files <dir>/*.[ch] | xargs ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f
> >
> > I suggest you only use anything like this
> > on staging directories.
> >
> >
> 
> Thanks Joe,
> That was what I needed to known :). I was hitting some errors in arch,
> so I will run that to see if there are any others.
> Cheers Nick

I again suggest you _ONLY_ use checkpatch on staging.

Doing checkpatch only cleanups will not make you a
better developer nor give you a good understanding
of the code operation.