[kvm-unit-tests PATCH v9 1/9] docs: mention checkpatch in the README

Alex Bennée alex.bennee at linaro.org
Thu Dec 2 03:53:44 PST 2021


Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee at linaro.org>
Acked-by: Andrew Jones <drjones at redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20211118184650.661575-2-alex.bennee at linaro.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Huth <thuth at redhat.com>

---
v9
  - slightly more weaselly statement about checkpatch
---
 README.md | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6e6a9d04..245052b4 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -182,3 +182,6 @@ the code files.  We also start with common code and finish with unit test
 code. git-diff's orderFile feature allows us to specify the order in a
 file.  The orderFile we use is `scripts/git.difforder`; adding the config
 with `git config diff.orderFile scripts/git.difforder` enables it.
+
+We strive to follow the Linux kernels coding style so it's recommended
+to run the kernel's ./scripts/checkpatch.pl on new patches.
-- 
2.30.2




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