From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: improve ignoring CamelCase SI style variants like mA Ignore all upper-case variants before and after SI units like mA, mV and uV so uses like RANGE_mA do not emit a CAMELCASE message. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5ce6f9131327fd2e12d7a0e20a55f588448de090.camel@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-improve-ignoring-camelcase-si-style-variants-like-ma +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -5038,8 +5038,9 @@ sub process { $var =~ /[A-Z][a-z]|[a-z][A-Z]/ && #Ignore Page<foo> variants $var !~ /^(?:Clear|Set|TestClear|TestSet|)Page[A-Z]/ && -#Ignore SI style variants like nS, mV and dB (ie: max_uV, regulator_min_uA_show) - $var !~ /^(?:[a-z_]*?)_?[a-z][A-Z](?:_[a-z_]+)?$/ && +#Ignore SI style variants like nS, mV and dB +#(ie: max_uV, regulator_min_uA_show, RANGE_mA_VALUE) + $var !~ /^(?:[a-z0-9_]*|[A-Z0-9_]*)?_?[a-z][A-Z](?:_[a-z0-9_]+|_[A-Z0-9_]+)?$/ && #Ignore some three character SI units explicitly, like MiB and KHz $var !~ /^(?:[a-z_]*?)_?(?:[KMGT]iB|[KMGT]?Hz)(?:_[a-z_]+)?$/) { while ($var =~ m{($Ident)}g) { _
