checkpatch: create an EXPERIMENTAL --fix option to correct patches

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Some patches have simple defects in whitespace and formatting that
checkpatch could correct automatically.  Attempt to do so.

Add a --fix option to create a "<inputfile>.EXPERIMENTAL-checkpatch-fixes"
file that tries to use normal kernel style for some of these formatting
errors.

Add warnings against using this file without verifying the changes.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Joe Perches

2013-07-03 15:05:31 -07:00

committed by Linus Torvalds

parent 23f780c904

commit 3705ce5bcc

1 changed files with 354 additions and 88 deletions

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