Re: [PATCH] Revert "checkpatch: add check for keyword 'boolean' in Kconfig definitions"

[Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2021-01-27 at 04:15 +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> This reverts commit 327953e9af6c59ad111b28359e59e3ec0cbd71b6.
> 
> You cannot use 'boolean' since commit b92d804a5179 ("kconfig: drop
> 'boolean' keyword").
> 
> This check is no longer needed.

Thanks.

> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> @@ -3390,13 +3390,6 @@ sub process {
>  			}
>  		}
>  
> -# discourage the use of boolean for type definition attributes of Kconfig options
> -		if ($realfile =~ /Kconfig/ &&
> -		    $line =~ /^\+\s*\bboolean\b/) {
> -			WARN("CONFIG_TYPE_BOOLEAN",
> -			     "Use of boolean is deprecated, please use bool instead.\n" . $herecurr);
> -		}
> -
>  		if (($realfile =~ /Makefile.*/ || $realfile =~ /Kbuild.*/) &&
>  		    ($line =~ /\+(EXTRA_[A-Z]+FLAGS).*/)) {
>  			my $flag = $1;