[Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH] checkpatch: add --fix option for OPEN_BRACE issues

Dwaipayan Ray dwaipayanray1 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 17 09:47:29 UTC 2020


> > I have only run on some test cases I made, which also included the
> > style misuses above. Finding files in the kernel for this exact check
> > might take a bit work. Should I do that? I think these custom examples
> > pretty much handles all the cases.
> >
>
> Well, it might be helpful to also submit some patches improving the
> code to see if the cases where it would trigger actually fits to the
> expectation of the maintainers, or if they intentionally have a
> different style in mind.
>
> I think it is worth running checkpatch to find such cases.
>
Okay thanks! I will try to find out some of those.

Regards,
Dwaipayan.


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