Re: [PATCH] scripts: checkpatch.pl

[Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>]

On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 08:27:30AM +0200, Raffaele Recalcati wrote:
> 2010/6/23 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> 
> > On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 11:49:21 +0200
> > Raffaele Recalcati <lamiaposta71@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Raffaele Recalcati <raffaele.recalcati@bticino.it>
> > >
> > > I've got a false positive when spaces are present
> > > at the beginning of a line.
> > > So I add this check, obviously outside comments.
> > > This patch is compatible with the actual mainline,
> > > I mean 7e27d6e778cd87b6f2415515d7127eba53fe5d02 commit.
> >
> > I don't really understand that.  It would help if the changelog
> > were to include a copy of the code which triggers this "false
> > positive", and a copy of the incorrect checkpatch.pl output.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> Would be nice a changelog like this?
> 
> ----start changelog-----------
> I've got a false positive when spaces are present at the beginning of a
> line.
> So I add this check, obviously excluding to check the lines in the middle of
> comments.

This check seems to be causing regressions for valid combinations.  I
have a patch to this patch which seems to fix it, I am currently fixing
the test suite and test it generally.

Andrew, will get the delta up to you shortly.

-apw