The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: describe --min-conf-desc-length has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is checkpatch-describe-min-conf-desc-length.patch This patch will shortly appear at https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/25-new.git/tree/patches/checkpatch-describe-min-conf-desc-length.patch This patch will later appear in the mm-nonmm-unstable branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm 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 via the mm-everything branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm and is updated there every 2-3 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Philipp Hahn <phahn-oss@xxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: describe --min-conf-desc-length Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 12:22:27 +0100 Neither the warning nor the help message gives any hint on the unit for length: Could be meters, inches, bytes, characters or ... lines. Extend the output of `--help` to name the unit "lines" and the default: - --min-conf-desc-length=n set the min description length, if shorter, warn + --min-conf-desc-length=n set the minimum description length for config symbols + in lines, if shorter, warn (default 4) Include the minimum number of lines as other error messages already do: - WARNING: please write a help paragraph that fully describes the config symbol + WARNING: please write a help paragraph that fully describes the config symbol with at least 4 lines Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/c71c170c90eba26265951e248adfedd3245fe575.1741605695.git.p.hahn@xxxxxx Signed-off-by: Philipp Hahn <p.hahn@xxxxxx> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-describe-min-conf-desc-length +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -115,7 +115,8 @@ Options: --max-line-length=n set the maximum line length, (default $max_line_length) if exceeded, warn on patches requires --strict for use with --file - --min-conf-desc-length=n set the min description length, if shorter, warn + --min-conf-desc-length=n set the minimum description length for config symbols + in lines, if shorter, warn (default $min_conf_desc_length) --tab-size=n set the number of spaces for tab (default $tabsize) --root=PATH PATH to the kernel tree root --no-summary suppress the per-file summary @@ -3647,7 +3648,7 @@ sub process { $help_length < $min_conf_desc_length) { my $stat_real = get_stat_real($linenr, $ln - 1); WARN("CONFIG_DESCRIPTION", - "please write a help paragraph that fully describes the config symbol\n" . "$here\n$stat_real\n"); + "please write a help paragraph that fully describes the config symbol with at least $min_conf_desc_length lines\n" . "$here\n$stat_real\n"); } } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from phahn-oss@xxxxxx are checkpatch-describe-min-conf-desc-length.patch