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

[Scott Branden]

On 2020-06-10 2:09 p.m., Joe Perches wrote:
> 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.
Checkpatch is run against a lot of code outside of the linux kernel but 
following linux coding style.
There is nothing personal about this, they are the format specifiers in 
inttypes.h for fixed width types .
> > 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)
> >   			    $var !~ /^(?:[a-z0-9_]*|[A-Z0-9_]*)?_?[a-z][A-Z](?:_[a-z0-9_]+|_[A-Z0-9_]+)?$/ &&