Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: ignore CamelCase for inttypes.h format specifiers

From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed Jun 10 2020 - 17:09:58 EST


On Wed, 2020-06-10 at 13:33 -0700, Scott Branden wrote:
> Ignore CamelCase for inttypes.h for fixed integer types format specifiers.
> (ex. PRIx32 for uint32_t).

Personally, I don't like those.

> Signed-off-by: Scott Branden <scott.branden@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 899e380782c0..9fa90457b270 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -5157,6 +5157,8 @@ sub process {
> $var =~ /[A-Z][a-z]|[a-z][A-Z]/ &&
> #Ignore Page<foo> variants
> $var !~ /^(?:Clear|Set|TestClear|TestSet|)Page[A-Z]/ &&
> +#Ignore inttypes.h scanf/printf format specifiers for fixed size integer types
> + $var !~ /^(?:PRI|SCN)[dxoui](8|16|32|64|PTR|MAX)?$/ &&
> #Ignore SI style variants like nS, mV and dB
> #(ie: max_uV, regulator_min_uA_show, RANGE_mA_VALUE)
> $var !~ /^(?:[a-z0-9_]*|[A-Z0-9_]*)?_?[a-z][A-Z](?:_[a-z0-9_]+|_[A-Z0-9_]+)?$/ &&