[Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH RFC v3 2/3] docs: add documentation for checkpatch

[Dwaipayan Ray]

On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 10:27 PM Joe Perches <joe at perches.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2021-02-13 at 18:45 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> > Add documentation for kernel script checkpatch.pl.
> > This documentation is also parsed by checkpatch to
> > enable a verbose mode.
> >
> > The message types in checkpatch are documented with rst
> > field lists. A total of 33 checkpatch type descriptions
> > are added.
>
> Alphabetic ordering isn't that great for these entries.
> Please group them by use:
>
> whitespace/code layout style:
> SPACING, TRAILING_WHITESPACE, LINE_SPACING
>
> commit message defects:
> BAD_SIGN_OFF, BAD_STABLE_ADDRESS_STYLE, COMMIT_COMMENT_SYMBOL, COMMIT_MESSAGE
>
> Allocation style:
> group: ALLOC_ARRAY_ARGS, ALLOC_SIZEOF_STRUCT, ALLOC_WITH_MULTIPLY
>
> > diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst
> []
> > +4 Type Descriptions
> > +-------------------
> > +
> > +This section contains a description of all the message types in checkpatch.
> > +
> > +.. Types in this section are also parsed by checkpatch.
> > +.. Please keep the types sorted alphabetically.
> > +
> > +:ALLOC_ARRAY_ARGS:
> > +  The first argument for kcalloc or kmalloc_array should be the
> > +  number of elements.  sizeof() as the first argument is generally
> > +  wrong.
>
> If you look at the generated .html file, the output format  is poor.
>
> It would probably be better to use
> **<TYPE>**
> for each of these blocks instead of
> :<TYPE>:
>
> and update the script appropriately.

Thanks, I will do these.

Also someone pointed out in the list that some lines in the patch contained > 80
columns. Checkpatch doesn't generate any warning for that. Is it something that
could be added to checkpatch or was it decided against at some point?

Thanks,
Dwaipayan.