Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 2 authors, 2021-03-20

Re: [PATCH v2] docs: document all error message types in checkpatch

From: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Date: 2021-03-18 19:06:17

On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 12:33 AM Dwaipayan Ray [off-list ref] wrote:
All the error message types now have a verbose description.

Also there are two new groups of message types:

- Macros, Attributes and Symbols
- Functions and Variables
Lukas, could you go over this when you are free?

Also please ignore the v1 of this patch. The checkpatch change
was accidentally added to that.

Thanks!
Dwaipayan.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Rearrange the message types to fit these new groups as needed.

Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
---

Changes in v2:
- Replace 4.10 kernel doc links by latest

 Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst | 316 ++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 278 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
index 2671e54c8320..8ccd63a18e10 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
@@ -280,43 +280,12 @@ API usage
     However this is not always the case (See signal.h).
     This message type is emitted only for includes from arch/.

-  **ARRAY_SIZE**
-    The ARRAY_SIZE(foo) macro should be preferred over
-    sizeof(foo)/sizeof(foo[0]) for finding number of elements in an
-    array.
-
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