On Thu, 18 May 2023 13:45:29 +0000
Ankur Dwivedi <[email protected]> wrote:

> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Ankur Dwivedi <[email protected]>
> >Sent: Tuesday, March 7, 2023 5:35 PM
> >To: [email protected]
> >Cc: [email protected]; Jerin Jacob Kollanukkaran <[email protected]>;
> >Ankur Dwivedi <[email protected]>
> >Subject: [PATCH v5 1/1] devtools: add tracepoint check in checkpatch
> >
> >This patch adds a validation in checkpatch tool, to check if a tracepoint is
> >present in any new function added in cryptodev, ethdev, eventdev and
> >mempool library.
> >
> >In this patch, the build_map_changes function is copied from check-symbol-
> >change.sh to check-tracepoint.sh. The check-tracepoint.sh script uses
> >build_map_changes function to create a map of functions.
> >In the map, the newly added functions, added in the experimental section are
> >identified and their definition are checked for the presence of tracepoint. 
> >The
> >checkpatch return error if the tracepoint is not present.
> >
> >For functions for which trace is not needed, they can be added to
> >devtools/trace-skiplist.txt file. The above tracepoint check will be skipped 
> >for
> >them.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Ankur Dwivedi <[email protected]>

Given the amount of string processing, it would be more readable in python.
That is not a show stopper, just a suggestion.

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