On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 8:26 AM Lukas Bulwahn <[email protected]> wrote: > > It is not a competition between checkpatch and clang-format, but if it would > be:
Please note that clang-tidy is a different tool, it is designed to write lints based on the AST rather than formatting. > But jokes aside: Dwaipayan Ray, a mentee Joe and I are working with, > has already submitted a patch to checkpatch that identifies those > patterns and provides a fix: > > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]/ That is very good! However, it does not hurt to have it repeated in clang-tidy too: it is a very good thing to have a full C parser behind when writing lints! Cheers, Miguel
