The patch titled checkpatch: ensure kconfig help checks only apply when we are adding help has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-ensure-kconfig-help-checks-only-apply-when-we-are-adding-help.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/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: checkpatch: ensure kconfig help checks only apply when we are adding help From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> When checking the length of the help we need to be sure we are seeing the whole story before erroring. Firstly we only want to check when adding the help in the first place. Second we need to be sure that we are seeing the end of the entry, nominally when there is no context below or that context shows the start of the next entry. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-ensure-kconfig-help-checks-only-apply-when-we-are-adding-help scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-ensure-kconfig-help-checks-only-apply-when-we-are-adding-help +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1400,18 +1400,34 @@ sub process { } # check for Kconfig help text having a real description +# Only applies when adding the entry originally, after that we do not have +# sufficient context to determine whether it is indeed long enough. if ($realfile =~ /Kconfig/ && - $line =~ /\+?\s*(---)?help(---)?$/) { + $line =~ /\+\s*(?:---)?help(?:---)?$/) { my $length = 0; - for (my $l = $linenr; defined($lines[$l]); $l++) { - my $f = $lines[$l]; + my $cnt = $realcnt; + my $ln = $linenr + 1; + my $f; + my $is_end = 0; + while ($cnt > 0 && defined $lines[$ln - 1]) { + $f = $lines[$ln - 1]; + $cnt-- if ($lines[$ln - 1] !~ /^-/); + $is_end = $lines[$ln - 1] =~ /^\+/; + $ln++; + + next if ($f =~ /^-/); + $f =~ s/^.//; $f =~ s/#.*//; $f =~ s/^\s+//; next if ($f =~ /^$/); - last if ($f =~ /^\s*config\s/); + if ($f =~ /^\s*config\s/) { + $is_end = 1; + last; + } $length++; } - WARN("please write a paragraph that describes the config symbol fully\n" . $herecurr) if ($length < 4); + WARN("please write a paragraph that describes the config symbol fully\n" . $herecurr) if ($is_end && $length < 4); + #print "is_end<$is_end> length<$length>\n"; } # check we are in a valid source file if not then ignore this hunk _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are checkpatch-fix-regressions-in-fix-handling-of-leading-spaces.patch checkpatch-types-may-sit-on-a-line-on-their-own.patch checkpatch-suggest-cleanpatch-and-cleanfile-when-appropriate.patch checkpatch-ensure-we-do-not-collapse-bracketed-sections-into-constants.patch checkpatch-handle-casts-better-fixing-false-categorisation-of-as-binary.patch checkpatch-returning-errno-typically-should-be-negative.patch checkpatch-add-check-for-space-after-struct-union-and-enum.patch checkpatch-simplify-and-consolidate-missing-space-after-checks.patch checkpatch-ensure-kconfig-help-checks-only-apply-when-we-are-adding-help.patch checkpatch-check-for-incorrect-permissions.patch checkpatch-add-additional-attribute-defines.patch checkpatch-update-copyright-dates.patch checkpatch-clean-up-structure-definition-macro-handline.patch checkpatch-handle-export_symbol-for-device_attr-and-similar.patch checkpatch-statement-block-context-analyser-should-look-at-sanitised-lines.patch checkpatch-version-031.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html