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| author | Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@gmail.com> | 2018-02-16 21:22:55 +0100 |
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| committer | Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> | 2018-03-25 19:03:57 +0200 |
| commit | 84af7a6194e493fae312a2b7fa5a3b51f76d9282 (patch) | |
| tree | bc79978850d383622c75f5beafc7425c4bef4cda /scripts/checkpatch.pl | |
| parent | checkpatch: kconfig: check help texts for menuconfig and choice (diff) | |
| download | linux-84af7a6194e493fae312a2b7fa5a3b51f76d9282.tar.xz linux-84af7a6194e493fae312a2b7fa5a3b51f76d9282.zip | |
checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over '---help---'
IMO, we should discourage '---help---' for new help texts, even in cases
where it would be consistent with other help texts in the file. This
will help if we ever want to get rid of '---help---' in the future.
Also simplify the code to only check for exactly '---help---'. Since
commit c2264564df3d ("kconfig: warn of unhandled characters in Kconfig
commands"), '---help---' is a proper keyword and can only appear in that
form. Prior to that commit, '---help---' working was more of a syntactic
quirk.
Signed-off-by: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 54b782fab4fd..2784f6ab309f 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2817,7 +2817,11 @@ sub process { if ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ /^\+\s*(?:bool|tristate|prompt)\s*["']/) { $is_start = 1; - } elsif ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ /^\+\s*(?:---)?help(?:---)?$/) { + } elsif ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ /^\+\s*(?:help|---help---)\s*$/) { + if ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ "---help---") { + WARN("CONFIG_DESCRIPTION", + "prefer 'help' over '---help---' for new help texts\n" . $herecurr); + } $length = -1; } |