[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 01/19] devtools: add simple script to find duplicate includes

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 22:33:55 +0200
Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:

> Hi Stephen,
> 
> 11/07/2017 20:55, Stephen Hemminger:
> > This is just a simple check script to find obvious duplications.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> > ---
> >  devtools/dup_include.pl | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 64 insertions(+)
> >  create mode 100755 devtools/dup_include.pl  
> 
> Thank you for this script, but... it is written in Perl!
> I don't think it is a good idea to add yet another language to DPDK.
> We already have shell and python scripts.
> And I am not sure a lot of (young) people are able to parse it ;)
> 
> I would like to propose this shell script:
> 
> dirs='app buildtools drivers examples lib test'
> pattern='^[[:space:]]*#include[[:space:]]*[<"](.*)[>"].*'
> 
> for file in $(git ls $dirs) ; do
>     dups=$(sed -rn "s,$pattern,\1,p" $file | sort | uniq -d)
>     [ -n "$dups" ] || continue
>     echo "$file"
>     echo "$dups" | sed 's,^,\t,'
> done

Sorry, it is quick and easy. After all it is optional, just like
coccinelle and not part of the build.  Plus checkpatch is in Perl.