Re: [PATCH V9 2/2] checkpatch: check format of Vec<String> in modules

[Joe Perches]

On Sun, 2025-03-09 at 14:57 -0300, Guilherme Giacomo Simoes wrote:
> Implement a check to ensure that the author, firmware, and alias fields
> of the module! macro are properly formatted.
> 
> * If the array contains more than one value, enforce vertical
>   formatting.
> * If the array contains only one value, it may be formatted on a single
>   line

What happens if the patch contains more than one module?

> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> +# check if the field is about author, firmware or alias from module! macro and find malformed arrays
> +		my $inline = 0;
> +		my $key = "";
> +		my $add_line = $line =~ /^\+/;
> +
> +		if ($line =~ /\b(authors|alias|firmware)\s*:\s*\[/) {

?

> +		if ($expected_spaces && $spaces) {
> +			if (length($spaces) != length($expected_spaces)) {

spaces contains both spaces and tabs.
Why not test the strings rather than the length?
Otherwise tab-space is the same length as space-tab.

> +				WARN("ARRAY_MODULE_MACRO",
> +					 "Prefer aligned parameters\n" . $herevet_space_add);

Alignment to open parenthesis please.

Why is herevet_space_add more useful than herevet?