checkpatch.pl from the Linux Kernel

This git repo includes a script to download checkpatch.pl script from torvalds/linux/scripts.

Quick Install

On macOS, do this:

brew tap riboseinc/checkpatch
brew install --HEAD checkpatch

Usage

git-checkpatch

git-checkpatch is a quick way of using checkpatch.pl outside the kernel tree.

git-checkpatch HEAD

=>

7667e7a (HEAD -> mybranch, origin/mybranch) My Commit Message
total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 20 lines checked

Your patch has no obvious style problems and is ready for submission.

NOTE: Ignored message types: ARRAY_SIZE COMMIT_LOG_LONG_LINE COMPLEX_MACRO EXECUTE_PERMISSIONS FILE_PATH_CHANGES LONG_LINE LONG_LINE_COMMENT LONG_LINE_STRING MISSING_SIGN_OFF MULTISTATEMENT_MACRO_USE_DO_WHILE NAKED_SSCANF NEW_TYPEDEFS RETURN_PARENTHESES SPLIT_STRING SSCANF_TO_KSTRTO STATIC_CONST_CHAR_ARRAY STORAGE_CLASS SYMBOLIC_PERMS TRAILING_SEMICOLON USE_FUNC

For your convenience, these checkpatch.pl checks checks are IGNORED when running git-checkpatch:

COMPLEX_MACRO
TRAILING_SEMICOLON
LONG_LINE
LONG_LINE_STRING
LONG_LINE_COMMENT
SYMBOLIC_PERMS
NEW_TYPEDEFS
SPLIT_STRING
USE_FUNC
COMMIT_LOG_LONG_LINE
FILE_PATH_CHANGES
MISSING_SIGN_OFF
RETURN_PARENTHESES
STATIC_CONST_CHAR_ARRAY
ARRAY_SIZE
NAKED_SSCANF
SSCANF_TO_KSTRTO
EXECUTE_PERMISSIONS
MULTISTATEMENT_MACRO_USE_DO_WHILE
STORAGE_CLASS

Normal checkpatch.pl

The normal checkpatch.pl can be invoked like this outside the kernel tree:

checkpatch.pl --no-tree

Download

To download checkpatch.pl, run the following command:

./download.sh