Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Look for Kconfig indentation errors

[Jani Nikula]

On Thu, 28 Nov 2019, Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Kconfig should be indented with one tab for first level and tab+2 spaces
> for second level.  There are many mixups of this so add a checkpatch
> rule.
>
> Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx>

I agree unifying the indentation is nice, and without something like
this it'll start bitrotting before Krzysztof's done fixing them all... I
think there's been quite a few fixes merged lately.

I approve of the idea, but I'm clueless about the implementation.

BR,
Jani.


> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index e41f4adcc1be..875e862cf076 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -3046,6 +3046,13 @@ sub process {
>  			     "Use of boolean is deprecated, please use bool instead.\n" . $herecurr);
>  		}
>  
> +# Kconfig has special indentation
> +		if ($realfile =~ /Kconfig/ &&
> +		    ($rawline =~ /^\+ +\t* *[a-zA-Z-]/) || ($rawline =~ /^\+\t( |   )[a-zA-Z-]/)) {
> +			WARN("CONFIG_INDENTATION",
> +			     "Kconfig uses one tab indentation, optionally followed by two spaces.\n" . $herecurr);
> +		}
> +
>  		if (($realfile =~ /Makefile.*/ || $realfile =~ /Kbuild.*/) &&
>  		    ($line =~ /\+(EXTRA_[A-Z]+FLAGS).*/)) {
>  			my $flag = $1;

-- 
Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Graphics Center