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| author | Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz> | 2026-09-04 13:02:29 +0200 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-09-05 20:23:32 -0700 |
| commit | 72871a10f9eee999b59588a198ad961a57534685 (patch) | |
| tree | 80c9f4698e5a24b7a65747181cc94429359b655e /scripts | |
| parent | 40e191e38cff9875576010bed37f3d25409c5ff4 (diff) | |
| download | linux-next-72871a10f9eee999b59588a198ad961a57534685.tar.gz linux-next-72871a10f9eee999b59588a198ad961a57534685.zip | |
checkpatch: add --userspace to force userspace rules
Also allow to use --no-userspace for userspace projects which vendored
checkpatch.pl and use --userspace globally to be able switch it off for
files with kernel code.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260904110230.1219037-4-pvorel@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index b458c7f22684..ead35e6abba7 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ my $env_config_dir = 'CHECKPATCH_CONFIG_DIR'; my $max_line_length = 100; my $ignore_perl_version = 0; my $spdx_cxx_comments = 0; +my $userspace; my $minimum_perl_version = 5.10.0; my $min_conf_desc_length = 4; my $spelling_file = "$D/spelling.txt"; @@ -143,6 +144,7 @@ Options: (required by old toolchains), allow also C++ comments (//). NOTE: it should *not* be used for Linux mainline. + --userspace Force rules specific for userspace. --codespell Use the codespell dictionary for spelling/typos (default:$codespellfile) --codespellfile Use this codespell dictionary @@ -358,6 +360,7 @@ GetOptions( 'codespell!' => \$codespell, 'codespellfile=s' => \$user_codespellfile, 'typedefsfile=s' => \$typedefsfile, + 'userspace!' => \$userspace, 'color=s' => \$color, 'no-color' => \$color, #keep old behaviors of -nocolor 'nocolor' => \$color, #keep old behaviors of -nocolor @@ -2667,6 +2670,9 @@ sub exclude_global_initialisers { sub is_userspace { my ($realfile) = @_; + + return $userspace if (defined $userspace); + return ($realfile =~ m@^tools/@ || $realfile =~ m@^scripts/@ || $realfile =~ m@^arch/.*/tools/@); |