login
Login
/
Register
Search
Search this site:
Forums
News
Blogs
Features
Site
Home
»
Mailing list archives
»
linux-kernel
»
2008
»
May
»
6
Re: [rfc] the kernel workflow & trivial "global -> static" patches (was: Re: [2.6 patch] make sched_feat_{names,open} static)
view
thread
Previous message: [
thread
] [
date
] [
author
]
Next message: [
thread
] [
date
] [
author
]
[view in full thread]
From: Andy Whitcroft
Subject:
Re: [rfc] the kernel workflow & trivial "global -> static" patches (was: Re: [2.6 patch] make sched_feat_{names,open} static)
Date: Tuesday, May 6, 2008 - 12:46 am
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 02:46:25PM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
quoted text
> On Mon, 5 May 2008 14:26:04 -0700 > Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > > Actually, we could perhaps do a lot of this at the checkpatch level? > > If checkpatch sees a global symbol being added and the same patch > > does not add references to that symbol from a different file then > > whine. Obviously this will generate false positives but that's OK. > > or.. doesn't add it to a header file. That might be even more generic; > (and enforces a "all global functions need a prototype in a header > somewhere)
That does sound possible. I am sure it will false positive quite a lot, but its probabally worth a stab. -apw --
unsubscribe notice
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to
majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at
http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at
http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Previous message: [
thread
] [
date
] [
author
]
Next message: [
thread
] [
date
] [
author
]
Messages in current thread:
[2.6 patch] make sched_feat_{names,open} static
, Adrian Bunk
, (Mon May 5, 11:29 am)
[rfc] the kernel workflow & trivial "global -> static" pat ...
, Ingo Molnar
, (Mon May 5, 1:19 pm)
Re: [rfc] the kernel workflow & trivial "global -> static" ...
, Randy.Dunlap
, (Mon May 5, 1:40 pm)
Re: [rfc] the kernel workflow & trivial "global -> static" ...
, Andrew Morton
, (Mon May 5, 1:42 pm)
Re: [rfc] the kernel workflow & trivial "global -> static" ...
, Adrian Bunk
, (Mon May 5, 2:02 pm)
Re: [rfc] the kernel workflow & trivial "global -> static" ...
, Adrian Bunk
, (Mon May 5, 2:07 pm)
Re: [rfc] the kernel workflow & trivial "global -> static" ...
, Andrew Morton
, (Mon May 5, 2:26 pm)
Re: [rfc] the kernel workflow & trivial "global -> static" ...
, Adrian Bunk
, (Mon May 5, 2:45 pm)
Re: [rfc] the kernel workflow & trivial "global -> static" ...
, Arjan van de Ven
, (Mon May 5, 2:46 pm)
Re: [rfc] the kernel workflow & trivial "global -> static" ...
, Arjan van de Ven
, (Mon May 5, 2:51 pm)
Re: [rfc] the kernel workflow & trivial "global -> static" ...
, david
, (Mon May 5, 4:19 pm)
Re: [rfc] the kernel workflow & trivial "global -> static" ...
, Arjan van de Ven
, (Mon May 5, 4:40 pm)
Re: [rfc] the kernel workflow & trivial "global -> static" ...
, Theodore Tso
, (Mon May 5, 4:45 pm)
Re: [rfc] the kernel workflow & trivial "global -> static" ...
, Andi Kleen
, (Mon May 5, 5:21 pm)
Re: [rfc] the kernel workflow & trivial "global -> static" ...
, Arjan van de Ven
, (Mon May 5, 8:23 pm)
Re: [rfc] the kernel workflow & trivial "global -> static" ...
, Arjan van de Ven
, (Mon May 5, 10:48 pm)
Re: [rfc] the kernel workflow & trivial "global -> static" ...
, Adrian Bunk
, (Mon May 5, 11:18 pm)
Re: [rfc] the kernel workflow & trivial "global -> static" ...
, Andy Whitcroft
, (Tue May 6, 12:46 am)
Re: [rfc] the kernel workflow & trivial "global -> static" ...
, Andi Kleen
, (Tue May 6, 4:13 am)
Re: [rfc] the kernel workflow & trivial "global -> static" ...
, Adrian Bunk
, (Tue May 6, 4:25 am)
Navigation
Create content
Mailing list archives
Recent posts
Popular discussions
linux-kernel
:
Pekka Enberg
Re: BUG in free_block (tainted)
Jakub Narebski
Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Fix shortlog only showing HEAD revision.
Rafael J. Wysocki
[Bug #16136] Linux 2.6.34 causes system lockup on Compaq Presario 2200 Laptop
Joerg Roedel
Re: [patch] dma-debug: off by one issue
Tetsuo Handa
Re: [AppArmor #7 0/13] AppArmor security module
git
:
Junio C Hamano
Re: [RFC] origin link for cherry-pick and revert
Christian Stimming
git-gui: Fix broken revert confirmation.
Junio C Hamano
Re: git-svnimport
Mark Burton
Re: [PATCH] builtin-branch: highlight current remote branches with an asterisk
Henk
Announcement: Git Extensions stable (windows shell extensions)
linux-netdev
:
Nick Piggin
Re: Kernel WARNING: at net/core/dev.c:1330 __netif_schedule+0x2c/0x98()
Daniel Lezcano
getsockopt(TCP_DEFER_ACCEPT) value change
David Miller
Re: 2.6.27.18: bnx2/tg3: BUG: "scheduling while atomic" trying to ifenslave a seco...
Amit Kumar Salecha
[PATCH NEXT 10/10] qlcnic: add cksum flag
Julius Volz
[PATCH] IRDA: Fix genlmsg_put() return value check.
git-commits-head
:
Linux Kernel Mailing List
ath9k_htc: Allocate URBs properly
Linux Kernel Mailing List
cpumask: make irq_set_affinity() take a const struct cpumask
Linux Kernel Mailing List
virtio_blk: implement naming for vda-vdz,vdaa-vdzz,vdaaa-vdzzz
Linux Kernel Mailing List
[POWERPC] Use of_register_driver to implement of_register_platform_driver
Linux Kernel Mailing List
V4L/DVB (9041): Add support YUAN High-Tech STK7700D (1164:1f08)
openbsd-misc
:
Ryan McBride
Re: Packets Per Second Limit?
Stuart Henderson
Re: SquidGuard problem
Henning Brauer
Re: 3ware hardware raid support?
Nick Guenther
Re: Encrypting home partition
nixlists
Re: Openssl patch breaks Tor
Colocation donated by:
Syndicate