Re: [PATCH] drivers/scsi/arm/acornscsi.c: rename CONFIG_ACORNSCSI_CONSTANTS

From: Valentin Rothberg
Date: Tue Apr 28 2015 - 15:26:58 EST


Hi Paul,

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 9:10 PM, Paul Bolle <pebolle@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-04-28 at 16:15 +0200, Valentin Rothberg wrote:
>> CONFIG_ACORNSCSI_CONSTANTS is a file local CPP identifier and thereby
>> violates the naming convention of Kconfig options in Make and CPP
>> syntax; only Kconfig options should carry the 'CONFIG_' prefix.
>>
>> This patch removes the 'CONFIG_' prefix to apply to this convention and
>> to make static analysis tools happy.
>
> Will the Erlangen bot still spot ACORNSCSI_CONSTANTS as a potential
> issue?

No, undertaker-checkpatch won't complain about this. There are
thousands of such cases (i.e., without CONFIG_ prefix) around in the
code (mostly #ifdef DEBUG). But most of them are intentionally dead
or related to debugging, so they are ignored to avoid having false
positives.

Regards,
Valentin

> Paul Bolle
>
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