Re: [PATCH 2/2] checkpatch: kconfig: add missing types to regex

From: Nicolai Fischer
Date: Mon Dec 21 2020 - 10:14:48 EST



On Sun, 2020-12-20 at 20:16 +0100, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-12-14 at 11:24 +0100, Nicolai Fischer wrote:
>> Kconfig parsing does not recognise all type attributes.
>> This adds the missing 'int', 'sting' and 'hex' types.
> []
>> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> []
>> @@ -3321,7 +3321,7 @@ sub process {
>>   next if ($f =~ /^-/);
>>   last if (!$file && $f =~ /^\@\@/);
>>  
>>
>> - if ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ /^\+\s*(?:bool|tristate|prompt)\s*["']/) {
>> + if ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ /^\+\s*(?:bool|tristate|int|hex|string|prompt)\s*["']/) {
>>   $is_start = 1;
>>   } elsif ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ /^\+\s*help$/) {
>>   $length = -1;
>
> Another thing that could be done is to enforce the "extra 2 spaces"
> indent by capturing the whitespace before the help keyword:
>
> } elsif ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ /^\+\s*help$/) {
>
> could be
>
> } elsif ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ /^\+(\s*)help\s*$/) {
>
> with $1 used to validate the extra indent.
>
>


In case the indent does not match, should we display a new warning as in our previous patch?

On Tue, 2020-12-08 at 14:35 +0100, Nicolai Fischer wrote> + WARN("CONFIG_DESCRIPTION",
> + "help text is not indented 2 spaces more than the help keyword\n" . $herecurr);