Re: [PATCH 2/2] checkpatch: kconfig: add missing types to regex

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Dec 21 2020 - 12:18:53 EST


On Mon, 2020-12-21 at 16:08 +0100, Nicolai Fischer wrote:
> On Sun, 2020-12-20 at 20:16 +0100, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Mon, 2020-12-14 at 11:24 +0100, Nicolai Fischer wrote:
> > > Kconfig parsing does not recognise all type attributes.
> > > This adds the missing 'int', 'sting' and 'hex' types.
> > []
> > > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > []
> > > @@ -3321,7 +3321,7 @@ sub process {
> > >   next if ($f =~ /^-/);
> > >   last if (!$file && $f =~ /^\@\@/);
> > >  
> > >
> > > - if ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ /^\+\s*(?:bool|tristate|prompt)\s*["']/) {
> > > + if ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ /^\+\s*(?:bool|tristate|int|hex|string|prompt)\s*["']/) {
> > >   $is_start = 1;
> > >   } elsif ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ /^\+\s*help$/) {
> > >   $length = -1;
> >
> > Another thing that could be done is to enforce the "extra 2 spaces"
> > indent by capturing the whitespace before the help keyword:
> >
> > } elsif ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ /^\+\s*help$/) {
> >
> > could be
> >
> > } elsif ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ /^\+(\s*)help\s*$/) {
> >
> > with $1 used to validate the extra indent.
> >
> >
>
>
> In case the indent does not match, should we display a new warning as in our previous patch?

Sure, but in a separate patch and ensure blank lines are ignored.

+ if ($l !~ /^\ {2}/) {
+ $wrong_indent = 1;
}

The message you used:
+ WARN("CONFIG_DESCRIPTION",
+ "help text is not indented 2 spaces more than the help keyword\n" . $herecurr);

is IMO a bit oddly phrased and could/should test only
the first line after the help keyword and show the help
line using $hereprev.