Re: [PATCH] net: make config lines follow common pattern

From: Paolo Abeni
Date: Mon Nov 27 2023 - 05:25:41 EST


On Thu, 2023-11-23 at 12:12 +0100, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> The Kconfig parser is quite relaxed when parsing config definition lines.
> However, there are just a few config definition lines that do not follow
> the common regular expression 'config [0-9A-Z]', i.e., there are only a few
> cases where config is not followed by exactly one whitespace.
>
> To simplify life for kernel developers that use basic regular expressions
> to find and extract kernel configs, make all config lines follow this
> common pattern.
>
> No functional change, just helpful stylistic clean-up.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx>

IMHO this is a bit too much noise for a small gain: simple REs can
match all the existing patterns with 100% accuracy.

I think this should be dropped.

Cheers,

Paolo