Patches to checkpatch that add new style rules should also change Documentation/CodingStyle to document those new style rules; add a comment to that effect to the top of scripts/checkpatch.pl.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 2ee9eb7..ba65ea6 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ # (c) 2007,2008, Andy Whitcroft <a...@uk.ibm.com> (new conditions, test suite) # (c) 2008-2010 Andy Whitcroft <a...@canonical.com> # Licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL License version 2 +# +# This file does not define the kernel coding style; Documentation/CodingStyle +# does. If you add a new style test to this file, add the corresponding style +# rule it enforces to Documentation/CodingStyle. use strict; use POSIX; -- 1.8.4.rc3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
