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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 2d7ea85075b..49ae1ea9e86 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@ Who:	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
 
 What:   Video4Linux API 1 ioctls and video_decoder.h from Video devices.
 When:   December 2006
+Files:  include/linux/video_decoder.h
 Why:    V4L1 AP1 was replaced by V4L2 API. during migration from 2.4 to 2.6
         series. The old API have lots of drawbacks and don't provide enough
         means to work with all video and audio standards. The newer API is