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

[Joe Perches]

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.
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> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
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> @@ -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.