RE: checkpatch.pl report about "Missing blank line after declarations" in a structure definition

From: Dotan Barak
Date: Mon Aug 04 2014 - 11:31:58 EST


(I guess I need to refresh my regular expression skills ...)

Thanks, this will be just great!
Dotan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Perches [mailto:joe@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 6:27 PM
> To: Dotan Barak
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: checkpatch.pl report about "Missing blank line after
> declarations" in a structure definition
>
> On Mon, 2014-08-04 at 15:19 +0000, Dotan Barak wrote:
> > In our code (I take it as an example), we used
> > MLX5_DECLARE_DOORBELL_LOCK, So I guess that the regular expression
> > that you mentioned will fail on it (because the "_" is not allowed to be
> repeated).
> >
> > So, I would change it a little bit to allow people to use underscore as a word
> separator.
> []
> > > Maybe:
> > >
> > > (?:$Storage\s+)(?:[A-Z_][A-Z0-9]+_){0,2}(?:DEFINE|DECLARE)(?:_[A-Z0-
> > > 9]+){1,2}
>
> What I suggested should allow any of:
>
> DECLARE_FOO
> _FOO_DEFINE_BAR
> FOO_BAR_DEFINE_BAZ
> FOO_BAR_DECLARE_BAZ_QUX
>
> where FOO/BAR/BAZ/QUX can also have digits

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