On Tue, 9 Aug 2016 12:14:14 -0400 (EDT)
Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrc...@redhat.com>
> > To: no-re...@ec2-52-6-146-230.compute-1.amazonaws.com
> > Cc: f...@redhat.com, ehabk...@redhat.com, m...@redhat.com,
> > qemu-devel@nongnu.org, pet...@redhat.com, "jan kiszka"
> > <jan.kis...@web.de>, pbonz...@redhat.com, r...@twiddle.net
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2016 6:07:04 PM
> > Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: allow tabs in linux-headers
> >
> > 2016-08-09 08:31-0700, no-re...@ec2-52-6-146-230.compute-1.amazonaws.com:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Your series seems to have some coding style problems. See output below for
> > > more information:
> > >
> > > Message-id: 20160809150333.9991-1-rkrc...@redhat.com
> > > Type: series
> > > Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.7 0/2] intel-iommu: restrict EIM to
> > > quirkless KVM
> > >
> > > === TEST SCRIPT BEGIN ===
> > > #!/bin/bash
> > >
> > > BASE=base
> > > n=1
> > > total=$(git log --oneline $BASE.. | wc -l)
> > > failed=0
> > >
> > > commits="$(git log --format=%H --reverse $BASE..)"
> > > for c in $commits; do
> > > echo "Checking PATCH $n/$total: $(git show --no-patch --format=%s
> > > $c)..."
> > > if ! git show $c --format=email | ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --mailback
> > > -;
> > > then
> > > failed=1
> > > echo
> > > fi
> > > n=$((n+1))
> > > done
> > >
> > > exit $failed
> > > === TEST SCRIPT END ===
> > >
> > > Updating 3c8cf5a9c21ff8782164d1def7f44bd888713384
> > > Switched to a new branch 'test'
> > > e018fb0 intel-iommu: restrict EIM to quirkless KVM
> > > 5ef6f2f linux-headers: update to v4.8-rc1
> > >
> > > === OUTPUT BEGIN ===
> > > Checking PATCH 1/2: linux-headers: update to v4.8-rc1...
> > > ERROR: code indent should never use tabs
> > > #32: FILE: linux-headers/linux/kvm.h:885:
> > > +^Iunion {$
> > >
> > > ERROR: code indent should never use tabs
> > > #33: FILE: linux-headers/linux/kvm.h:886:
> > > +^I^I__u32 pad;$
> > >
> > > ERROR: code indent should never use tabs
> > > #34: FILE: linux-headers/linux/kvm.h:887:
> > > +^I^I__u32 devid;$
> > >
> > > ERROR: code indent should never use tabs
> > > #35: FILE: linux-headers/linux/kvm.h:888:
> > > +^I};$
> > >
> > > ERROR: code indent should never use tabs
> > > #43: FILE: linux-headers/linux/kvm.h:1034:
> > > +#define KVM_MSI_VALID_DEVID^I(1U << 0)$
> > >
> > > ERROR: code indent should never use tabs
> > > #50: FILE: linux-headers/linux/kvm.h:1040:
> > > +^I__u32 devid;$
> > >
> > > ERROR: code indent should never use tabs
> > > #51: FILE: linux-headers/linux/kvm.h:1041:
> > > +^I__u8 pad[12];$
> > >
> > > ERROR: code indent should never use tabs
> > > #59: FILE: linux-headers/linux/kvm.h:1086:
> > > +^IKVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_ITS,$
> > >
> > > ERROR: code indent should never use tabs
> > > #60: FILE: linux-headers/linux/kvm.h:1087:
> > > +#define KVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_ITS^IKVM_DEV_TYPE_ARM_VGIC_ITS$
> > >
> > > total: 9 errors, 0 warnings, 51 lines checked
> > >
> > > Your patch has style problems, please review. If any of these errors
> > > are false positives report them to the maintainer, see
> > > CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.
> >
> > These indentation errors are false positives.
> > ---8<---
> > Make scripts/checkpatch.pl accept tabs in linux-headers/, instead of
> > changing scripts/update-linux-headers.sh to expand tabs when importing.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrc...@redhat.com>
> > ---
> > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > index 929708721299..38232d4b25c3 100755
> > --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > @@ -1355,7 +1355,7 @@ sub process {
> > next if ($realfile !~ /\.(h|c|cpp|pl)$/);
> >
> > # in QEMU, no tabs are allowed
> > - if ($rawline =~ /^\+.*\t/) {
> > + if ($rawline =~ /^\+.*\t/ && $realfile !~ /^linux-headers\//) {
> > my $herevet = "$here\n" . cat_vet($rawline) . "\n";
> > ERROR("code indent should never use tabs\n" . $herevet);
> > $rpt_cleaners = 1;
> >
>
> Could you do the same for standard-headers/ too?
I think it would be better to not apply any qemu coding style checks to
a headers update. Something like 'check if this contains header updates
_only_' would make more sense, but that is beyond my nonexisting perl
skills...
