[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] devtools: add long lines to the list of options

[Thomas Monjalon]

2017-03-01 10:08, Stephen Hemminger:
> > --- a/devtools/checkpatches.sh
> > +++ b/devtools/checkpatches.sh
> > @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ options="$options --ignore=LINUX_VERSION_CODE,FILE_PATH_CHANGES,\
> >  VOLATILE,PREFER_PACKED,PREFER_ALIGNED,PREFER_PRINTF,\
> >  PREFER_KERNEL_TYPES,BIT_MACRO,CONST_STRUCT,\
> >  SPLIT_STRING,LINE_SPACING,PARENTHESIS_ALIGNMENT,NETWORKING_BLOCK_COMMENT_STYLE,\
> > -NEW_TYPEDEFS,COMPARISON_TO_NULL"
> > +NEW_TYPEDEFS,COMPARISON_TO_NULL,LONG_LINE_STRING"
> 
> Maybe it is time to have our own DPDK version of checkpatch which knows about
> DPDK API's like logging functions?

It is Perl code!
If we can have a reliable maintainer, why not.