Re: [Xen-devel] Xen checkpatch infrastructure design

[Lars Kurth <lars.kurth.xen@xxxxxxxxx>]

CC'ing Doug Goldstein as he has been reviewing some of Ishani's work (see below)

Both Andy Cooper and Doug Goldstein had done some groundwork earlier on this topic

On 24 Jul 2017, at 09:50, Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

On the Xen Developer Summit 2017 in Budapest we agreed to add a
script to the Xen repository capable to test patches for style
correctness, similar to checkpatch.pl of the Linux kernel.

This is a first draft of the interface visible to users and
developers.

...

RFC: Design Considerations
--------------------------
Remains the question how to design the style checker itself. It could
be:

(a) a monolithic script (perl, python, whatever) being capable of
   handling all the different coding styles
(b) a main script checking the patch header and calling a code style
   specific script for each source file modified by the patch

I believe (b) would be easier to maintain and to develop (we could start
with the main script and add style specific scripts later).

I don't have a view on this, but wanted to point the following docs which cover a little bit of groundwork on the subject, that can possibly be built upon

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10NJn-QvO1TvyJJJGE2PD6FtElYCT3neBAffIqeWHdiE/edit

http://markmail.org/message/tmdv2zzd4dvjin7v

Regards

Lars

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