On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 12:48:35PM -0700, Jim Davis wrote: > > I'd be nice if people could just specify CHECK and CHECKFLAGS to run > their favorite checker, but currently CHECKFLAGS seems hardwired for > running sparse. So something liike > > make C=1 CHECK="scripts/checkpatch.pl" CHECKFLAGS="--quiet --file" > > fails when checkpatch is passed lots of arguments like -D__linux__ > -Dlinux -D__STDC__ . A little shell wrapper to grab the last argument > in that long list is a workaround, but perhaps CHECKFLAGS should be > made less sparse-specific?
It should be noted though that CHECKFLAGS contains very very few sparse specific things. It's mainly flags for the compiler coming from KBUILD_CFLAGS (which of course, sparse needs to do its job properly). -- Luc Van Oostenryck
