Treewide frequency of various checkpatch messages

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Mon Mar 10 16:50:46 UTC 2014


On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 09:02:26AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-03-07 at 01:30 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Fri, 2014-03-07 at 10:54 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>  (a question about a new message warning of a missing
>   blank line between variable declaration blocks and
>   code in a function)
> > > How many warnings does this generate does this generate when you run it
> > > across the whole tree?
> > A lot.
> 
> Turns out it's 20,210 and it's the 14th
> most common checkpatch message type.
> 
>     14    20210  WARNING:SPACING: Missing a blank line after declarations

I think it's still worthwhile to clean up.

thanks,

greg k-h


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