The patch titled
Subject: checkpatch: kconfig: add missing types to regex
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
checkpatch-kconfig-add-missing-types-to-regex.patch
This patch should soon appear at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-kconfig-add-missing-types-to-regex.patch
and later at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-kconfig-add-missing-types-to-regex.patch
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From: Nicolai Fischer <nicolai.fischer@xxxxxx>
Subject: checkpatch: kconfig: add missing types to regex
Kconfig parsing does not recognise all type attributes.
This adds the missing 'int', 'string' and 'hex' types.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210103075015.23946-3-nicolai.fischer@xxxxxx
Co-developed-by: Johannes Czekay <johannes.czekay@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Czekay <johannes.czekay@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Fischer <nicolai.fischer@xxxxxx>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-kconfig-add-missing-types-to-regex
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3321,7 +3321,7 @@ sub process {
next if ($f =~ /^-/);
last if (!$file && $f =~ /^\@\@/);
- if ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ /^\+\s*(?:bool|tristate|prompt)\s*["']/) {
+ if ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ /^\+\s*(?:bool|tristate|int|hex|string|prompt)\s*(?:["'].*)?$/) {
$is_start = 1;
} elsif ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ /^\+\s*help$/) {
$length = -1;
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from nicolai.fischer@xxxxxx are
checkpatch-kconfig-replace-help-with-help.patch
checkpatch-kconfig-add-missing-types-to-regex.patch
checkpatch-kconfig-enforce-help-text-indentation.patch
checkpatch-kconfig-clarify-warning-for-paragraph-length.patch
checkpatch-kconfig-enforce-block-indentation.patch
