Commit a1385803 authored by Andy Whitcroft's avatar Andy Whitcroft Committed by Linus Torvalds

checkpatch: only apply kconfig help checks for options which prompt

The intent of this check is to catch the options which the user will see
and ensure they are properly described.  It is also common for internal
only options to have a brief description.  Allow this form.
Reported-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tested-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 3e469cdc
......@@ -1674,19 +1674,26 @@ sub process {
# Only applies when adding the entry originally, after that we do not have
# sufficient context to determine whether it is indeed long enough.
if ($realfile =~ /Kconfig/ &&
$line =~ /\+\s*(?:---)?help(?:---)?$/) {
$line =~ /.\s*config\s+/) {
my $length = 0;
my $cnt = $realcnt;
my $ln = $linenr + 1;
my $f;
my $is_start = 0;
my $is_end = 0;
while ($cnt > 0 && defined $lines[$ln - 1]) {
for (; $cnt > 0 && defined $lines[$ln - 1]; $ln++) {
$f = $lines[$ln - 1];
$cnt-- if ($lines[$ln - 1] !~ /^-/);
$is_end = $lines[$ln - 1] =~ /^\+/;
$ln++;
next if ($f =~ /^-/);
if ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ /.\s*(?:bool|tristate)\s*\"/) {
$is_start = 1;
} elsif ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ /.\s*(?:---)?help(?:---)?$/) {
$length = -1;
}
$f =~ s/^.//;
$f =~ s/#.*//;
$f =~ s/^\s+//;
......@@ -1698,8 +1705,8 @@ sub process {
$length++;
}
WARN("CONFIG_DESCRIPTION",
"please write a paragraph that describes the config symbol fully\n" . $herecurr) if ($is_end && $length < 4);
#print "is_end<$is_end> length<$length>\n";
"please write a paragraph that describes the config symbol fully\n" . $herecurr) if ($is_start && $is_end && $length < 4);
#print "is_start<$is_start> is_end<$is_end> length<$length>\n";
}
if (($realfile =~ /Makefile.*/ || $realfile =~ /Kbuild.*/) &&
......
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