From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756024AbZBWPQP (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:16:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754177AbZBWPP7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:15:59 -0500 Received: from adelie.canonical.com ([91.189.90.139]:60506 "EHLO adelie.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754059AbZBWPP6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:15:58 -0500 Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:15:55 +0000 From: Andy Whitcroft To: John Daiker Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: checkpatch.pl stalls on net/decnet/dn_fib.c Message-ID: <20090223151555.GG22617@shadowen.org> References: <499DE5CE.3030700@gmail.com> <20090223145329.GF22617@shadowen.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090223145329.GF22617@shadowen.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 02:53:29PM +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 03:05:50PM -0800, John Daiker wrote: > > Andy, > > > > Was running checkpatch.pl on the entire tree today (because my disk > > loves to get thrashed like that...) Found what seems to be a stall/hang > > while running checkpatch. I know nothing of the internal workings of > > checkpatch.pl, but hope that you're able to sniff this one out! > > > > ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --file ./net/decnet/dn_fib.c --debug values=9 > > types=9 possible=9 attr=9 > > Hmmm, yes thats broken indeed. Will have a look at it. Ok, think I have this one sorted. Could you test with the version of checkpatch at this URL: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/apw/checkpatch/checkpatch.pl-testing Thanks for the report. -apw