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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html