Commit 84af7a61 authored Feb 16, 2018 by Ulf Magnusson Committed by Masahiro Yamada Mar 26, 2018

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 c2264564 ("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>

parent 678ae162

scripts/checkpatch.pl

+5 −1

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		@@ -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;
		}

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