[PATCH v4 1/4] checkpatch: Support wide strings

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Sun Jan 23 17:05:15 CET 2022


On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 09:03:16AM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
> Hi Tom,
> 
> On Sun, 23 Jan 2022 at 07:54, Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 06:27:33PM -0700, Simon Glass wrote:
> >
> > > From: Joe Perches <joe at perches.com>
> > >
> > > Allow prefixing typical strings with L for wide strings and u for
> > > unicode strings.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe at perches.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> > > ---
> > > This was found on LKML:
> > >
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1508280192.6530.31.camel@perches.com/T/
> > >
> > > It likely wasn't applied because it did not show up in patchwork
> > > correctly, due to the patch being inline:
> > >
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/842121/
> > >
> > > In any case, it needed rebasing and updating to support 'u'.
> > >
> > > I sent this upstream:
> > >
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1470668/
> >
> > And this is now:
> > commit d2af5aa6c036d3fd2c1ff3379ffe3e6805929952
> > Author: Joe Perches <joe at perches.com>
> > Date:   Tue Sep 7 19:59:51 2021 -0700
> >
> >     checkpatch: support wide strings
> >
> >     Allow prefixing typical strings with L for wide strings and u for unicode
> >     strings.
> >
> > upstream and in v5.16.  Time for a direct resync again?
> 
> How about taking this patch so this long-standing series can go in and
> I can forget about it?
> 
> If you like I can do a patch to resync checkpatch. Do you think we
> should try to send the U-Boot things upstream?

A re-sync should be easy now that (almost?) all of the U-Boot stuff is
in one hunk and I would rather see a re-sync than backporting individual
changes.

-- 
Tom
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