Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] checkpatch: fix spurious vendor compatible warnings

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Mar 03 2014 - 12:51:53 EST


On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 11:44 +0100, Florian Vaussard wrote:
> Looking at the current documentation, the list of these generic
> placeholders is pretty short:
>
> $ git grep ',<.*>-' Documentation/devicetree/bindings/ | \
> grep -P -o ',<.*?>-' | grep -P -o '<.*>' | sort | uniq
>
> <board>
> <chip>
> <chip name>
> <mcu-chip>
> <processor>
> <soc>
> <SOC>
> <soc-family>
>
> so '[a-zA-Z0-9-]+' seems more reasonable indeed.

The <mcu-chip> use seems as if it's 2 wildcards

fsl,<mcu-chip>-<board>

I'm not sure that could work with the current
checkpatch code.

There's a space in "<chip name>" that should
probably be replaced by "<chip-name>" or just
"<chip>" for consistency.

> $compat2 =~ s/\,[a-zA-Z0-9]*\-/<\.\*>\-/g;

hand-escaped, not necessary if using "\Q$compat2\E"

Anyway, if either you or Rob think it appropriate to
submit a patch for either of the things I mentioned
in the first place:

> o Look for ".compatible = "foo" strings in .c and .h files
> o Improve the vendor name match in vendor-prefix.txt by only
> matching the exact vendor name at the beginning of lines.

or any of the stuff above here, please do.

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