[PATCH for comments] configure: install a whitespace checking pre-commit hook for developers

[Ralph Böhme]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 11:36:04AM +0200, Swen Schillig wrote:
> I promise I will mention it only this one time again, but what about using
> checkpatch instead of reinventing the wheel ?
> 
> checkpatch is used in a variety of other non-kernel projects,
> like GANESHA (user space NFS server) which is a project with 
> very similar requirements.
> 
> So why not having a look at least ?

heavens, that's 6k+ lines of Perl and a lot of it is really kernel
specific.

Simo's proposed patch looks a lot simpler and seems to do what we want as well,
so *if* we adopt such a swiss-army knife tool, I'd prefer Simo's proposal based
on MIT krb5.

-slow

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