[PATCH v2 3/3] checkpatch: relax Kconfig help text line number threshold

From: Yingjoe Chen
Date: Fri Apr 22 2016 - 10:32:33 EST


Current threshold is too strict and many upstream patch doesn't pass
this test. Relax it.

Signed-off-by: Yingjoe Chen <yingjoe.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
In v4.6-rc1, 171 new config options was added, and 87 of those options
have < 4 lines and 24 options have only 1 line. After this change,
checkpatch only raise warning when help text only contain 1 line.

Some options try to workaround this check by adding 2 lines
template like 'If you have this device...' which doesn't add value.

---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 403ebbc..4bfb23b 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ my $configuration_file = ".checkpatch.conf";
my $max_line_length = 80;
my $ignore_perl_version = 0;
my $minimum_perl_version = 5.10.0;
-my $min_conf_desc_length = 4;
+my $min_conf_desc_length = 2;
my $spelling_file = "$D/spelling.txt";
my $codespell = 0;
my $codespellfile = "/usr/share/codespell/dictionary.txt";
--
1.9.1