tree 9de51d4073895f72201040d4c7913dcc83b9ed4e
parent bc913b1899ce0c15ec496d1aa121c36785e0528a
author Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> 1180684008 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> 1180711108 -0700

add a trivial patch style checker

We are seeing increasing levels of minor patch style violations in submissions
to the mailing lists as well as making it into the tree.  These detract from
the quality of the submission and cause unnessary work for reviewers.

As a first step package up the current state of the patch style checker and
include it in the kernel tree.  Add instructions suggesting running it on
submissions.  This adds version v0.01 of the checkpatch.pl script.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>