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| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 2b404317daea..54b782fab4fd 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2797,7 +2797,10 @@ 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*config\s+/) { + # 'choice' is usually the last thing on the line (though + # Kconfig supports named choices), so use a word boundary + # (\b) rather than a whitespace character (\s) + $line =~ /^\+\s*(?:config|menuconfig|choice)\b/) { my $length = 0; my $cnt = $realcnt; my $ln = $linenr + 1; @@ -2822,7 +2825,13 @@ sub process { $f =~ s/#.*//; $f =~ s/^\s+//; next if ($f =~ /^$/); - if ($f =~ /^\s*config\s/) { + + # This only checks context lines in the patch + # and so hopefully shouldn't trigger false + # positives, even though some of these are + # common words in help texts + if ($f =~ /^\s*(?:config|menuconfig|choice|endchoice| + if|endif|menu|endmenu|source)\b/x) { $is_end = 1; last; } |