From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21AABC433E0 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2021 12:49:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1B3E64F4E for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2021 12:49:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231929AbhBBMtU (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Feb 2021 07:49:20 -0500 Received: from smtprelay0086.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.86]:46742 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231722AbhBBMst (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Feb 2021 07:48:49 -0500 Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (clb03-v110.bra.tucows.net [216.40.38.60]) by smtprelay07.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32074181D2FD2; Tue, 2 Feb 2021 12:48:07 +0000 (UTC) X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-HE-Tag: cream87_430f2d4275cb X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 1902 Received: from [192.168.1.159] (unknown [47.151.137.21]) (Authenticated sender: joe@perches.com) by omf10.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA; Tue, 2 Feb 2021 12:48:05 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Linux-kernel-mentees] Patches from the future - can checkpatch help? From: Joe Perches To: Dwaipayan Ray , Lukas Bulwahn Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel , kbuild test robot Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2021 04:48:04 -0800 In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" User-Agent: Evolution 3.38.1-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2021-02-01 at 22:41 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote: > The idea of a bot seems nice though in general. > People do have all the style checking scripts at their disposal, but still > we see style issues on the list. > > Something similar to the kernel test robot, but for style issues seems nice. > Is it something the community would like? (Adding lkp) Maybe yes, but likely it depends on the particular audience so no, not really. The kbuild test robot used to run checkpatch on patches and there there was negative feedback. I don't know if the robot is still running checkpatch with some subset of message types. A thread from 2013: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20130903003958.GA6855@localhost/