On Thu, 2019-10-10 at 13:39 -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 11:35:42PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: [] > > I think clang-format could not do this sort of conversion. > > Nor could coccinelle or checkpatch. > > > > Anyway, it's not really necessary for this particular patch > > to be applied, but it's a convenient way to show the script > > has the capability to do fallthrough comment conversions. > > > > I think it does conversions fairly reasonably but likely > > some files could not compile without adding an #include > > like: > > > > #include <linux/compiler.h> > > I think this is a nice tool to add -- at the very least it serves as > infrastructure for future similar conversions. And small cleanups can be > generated from it for people looking to clean up subsystems, etc.
Another similar tool that used checkpatch and also compile tested and created git commits was reformat_with_checkpatch https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1405128087.6751.12.camel@joe-AO725/