The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: add command-line option for TAB size has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-add-command-line-option-for-tab-size.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-add-command-line-option-for-tab-size.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-add-command-line-option-for-tab-size.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Antonio Borneo <borneo.antonio@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: add command-line option for TAB size Linux kernel coding style requires a size of 8 characters for both TAB and indentation, and such value is embedded as magic value allover the checkpatch script. This makes hard to reuse the script by other projects with different requirements in their coding style (e.g. OpenOCD [1] requires TAB size of 4 characters [2]). Replace the magic value 8 with a variable. Add a command-line option "--tab-size" to let the user select a TAB size value other than 8. [1] http://openocd.org/ [2] http://openocd.org/doc/doxygen/html/stylec.html#styleformat Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200122163852.124417-3-borneo.antonio@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Antonio Borneo <borneo.antonio@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Erik Ahlén <erik.ahlen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Spencer Oliver <spen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 26 ++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-add-command-line-option-for-tab-size +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ my $color = "auto"; my $allow_c99_comments = 1; # Can be overridden by --ignore C99_COMMENT_TOLERANCE # git output parsing needs US English output, so first set backtick child process LANGUAGE my $git_command ='export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8; git'; +my $tabsize = 8; sub help { my ($exitcode) = @_; @@ -98,6 +99,7 @@ Options: --show-types show the specific message type in the output --max-line-length=n set the maximum line length, if exceeded, warn --min-conf-desc-length=n set the min description length, if shorter, warn + --tab-size=n set the number of spaces for tab (default 8) --root=PATH PATH to the kernel tree root --no-summary suppress the per-file summary --mailback only produce a report in case of warnings/errors @@ -215,6 +217,7 @@ GetOptions( 'list-types!' => \$list_types, 'max-line-length=i' => \$max_line_length, 'min-conf-desc-length=i' => \$min_conf_desc_length, + 'tab-size=i' => \$tabsize, 'root=s' => \$root, 'summary!' => \$summary, 'mailback!' => \$mailback, @@ -267,6 +270,9 @@ if ($color =~ /^[01]$/) { die "Invalid color mode: $color\n"; } +# skip TAB size 1 to avoid additional checks on $tabsize - 1 +die "Invalid TAB size: $tabsize\n" if ($tabsize < 2); + sub hash_save_array_words { my ($hashRef, $arrayRef) = @_; @@ -1253,7 +1259,7 @@ sub expand_tabs { if ($c eq "\t") { $res .= ' '; $n++; - for (; ($n % 8) != 0; $n++) { + for (; ($n % $tabsize) != 0; $n++) { $res .= ' '; } next; @@ -2266,7 +2272,7 @@ sub string_find_replace { sub tabify { my ($leading) = @_; - my $source_indent = 8; + my $source_indent = $tabsize; my $max_spaces_before_tab = $source_indent - 1; my $spaces_to_tab = " " x $source_indent; @@ -3245,7 +3251,7 @@ sub process { next if ($realfile !~ /\.(h|c|pl|dtsi|dts)$/); # at the beginning of a line any tabs must come first and anything -# more than 8 must use tabs. +# more than $tabsize must use tabs. if ($rawline =~ /^\+\s* \t\s*\S/ || $rawline =~ /^\+\s* \s*/) { my $herevet = "$here\n" . cat_vet($rawline) . "\n"; @@ -3264,7 +3270,7 @@ sub process { "please, no space before tabs\n" . $herevet) && $fix) { while ($fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ - s/(^\+.*) {8,8}\t/$1\t\t/) {} + s/(^\+.*) {$tabsize,$tabsize}\t/$1\t\t/) {} while ($fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/(^\+.*) +\t/$1\t/) {} } @@ -3286,11 +3292,11 @@ sub process { if ($perl_version_ok && $sline =~ /^\+\t+( +)(?:$c90_Keywords\b|\{\s*$|\}\s*(?:else\b|while\b|\s*$)|$Declare\s*$Ident\s*[;=])/) { my $indent = length($1); - if ($indent % 8) { + if ($indent % $tabsize) { if (WARN("TABSTOP", "Statements should start on a tabstop\n" . $herecurr) && $fix) { - $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s@(^\+\t+) +@$1 . "\t" x ($indent/8)@e; + $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s@(^\+\t+) +@$1 . "\t" x ($indent/$tabsize)@e; } } } @@ -3308,8 +3314,8 @@ sub process { my $newindent = $2; my $goodtabindent = $oldindent . - "\t" x ($pos / 8) . - " " x ($pos % 8); + "\t" x ($pos / $tabsize) . + " " x ($pos % $tabsize); my $goodspaceindent = $oldindent . " " x $pos; if ($newindent ne $goodtabindent && @@ -3780,11 +3786,11 @@ sub process { #print "line<$line> prevline<$prevline> indent<$indent> sindent<$sindent> check<$check> continuation<$continuation> s<$s> cond_lines<$cond_lines> stat_real<$stat_real> stat<$stat>\n"; if ($check && $s ne '' && - (($sindent % 8) != 0 || + (($sindent % $tabsize) != 0 || ($sindent < $indent) || ($sindent == $indent && ($s !~ /^\s*(?:\}|\{|else\b)/)) || - ($sindent > $indent + 8))) { + ($sindent > $indent + $tabsize))) { WARN("SUSPECT_CODE_INDENT", "suspect code indent for conditional statements ($indent, $sindent)\n" . $herecurr . "$stat_real\n"); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from borneo.antonio@xxxxxxxxx are checkpatch-fix-minor-typo-and-mixed-spacetab-in-indentation.patch checkpatch-fix-multiple-const-types.patch checkpatch-add-command-line-option-for-tab-size.patch