Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Make camelcase test --strict and less noisy

From: Borislav Petkov
Date: Wed May 01 2013 - 08:34:43 EST


On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 07:45:03AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> CamelCase tests are a bit noisy against certain
> types of code acceptable to some kernel developers.
>
> Make the test applicable only with --strict.
>
> Do not bleat a message on nominally acceptable
> CamelCase uses that are separated by an _ like
> drm_core_has_MTRR.
>
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 3fb6d86..97226fb 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -2937,12 +2937,12 @@ sub process {
> while ($line =~ m{($Constant|$Lval)}g) {
> my $var = $1;
> if ($var !~ /$Constant/ &&
> - $var =~ /[A-Z]\w*[a-z]|[a-z]\w*[A-Z]/ &&
> + $var =~ /[A-Z][a-z]|[a-z][A-Z]/ &&
> $var !~ /"^(?:Clear|Set|TestClear|TestSet|)Page[A-Z]/ &&
> !defined $camelcase{$var}) {
> $camelcase{$var} = 1;
> - WARN("CAMELCASE",
> - "Avoid CamelCase: <$var>\n" . $herecurr);
> + CHK("CAMELCASE",
> + "Avoid CamelCase: <$var>\n" . $herecurr);

Yep, this is better.

James?

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Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

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