[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] devtools: add long lines to the list of options
Stephen Hemminger
stephen at networkplumber.org
Wed Mar 1 19:08:51 CET 2017
On Wed, 1 Mar 2017 12:44:19 -0500
Allain Legacy <allain.legacy at windriver.com> wrote:
> The checkpatch.pl tool is flagging warnings on long debug log strings.
> Since splitting these strings makes it difficult to search for logs it is
> preferred to allow these as exceptions to the long line rule. The addition
> of the LONG_LINE_STRINGS to the list of exceptions will allow lines that
> end with a string to exceed the maximum line length, but lines that end
> with variables or other constructs will still be flagged as errors. Also,
> lines that make use of PRIx64 with string concatenation will still be
> flagged if the beginning of the last string fragment begins after the 80
> character threshold.
>
> Signed-off-by: Allain Legacy <allain.legacy at windriver.com>
> ---
> devtools/checkpatches.sh | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/devtools/checkpatches.sh b/devtools/checkpatches.sh
> index 78e155e..26ff419 100755
> --- a/devtools/checkpatches.sh
> +++ b/devtools/checkpatches.sh
> @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ options="$options --ignore=LINUX_VERSION_CODE,FILE_PATH_CHANGES,\
> VOLATILE,PREFER_PACKED,PREFER_ALIGNED,PREFER_PRINTF,\
> PREFER_KERNEL_TYPES,BIT_MACRO,CONST_STRUCT,\
> SPLIT_STRING,LINE_SPACING,PARENTHESIS_ALIGNMENT,NETWORKING_BLOCK_COMMENT_STYLE,\
> -NEW_TYPEDEFS,COMPARISON_TO_NULL"
> +NEW_TYPEDEFS,COMPARISON_TO_NULL,LONG_LINE_STRING"
>
> print_usage () {
> cat <<- END_OF_HELP
Maybe it is time to have our own DPDK version of checkpatch which knows about
DPDK API's like logging functions?
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