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| author | Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> | 2017-07-10 15:52:07 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2017-07-10 16:32:35 -0700 |
| commit | 628f91a28649d063a048629d9d15b3e5c4dcaa37 (patch) | |
| tree | edfc0fc7e2e9fd3ce7b4d493b9cde341e066448f /scripts/checkpatch.pl | |
| parent | fb0d0e088e194e7d966c9a1b3c58900664e5d7db (diff) | |
| download | op-kernel-dev-628f91a28649d063a048629d9d15b3e5c4dcaa37.zip op-kernel-dev-628f91a28649d063a048629d9d15b3e5c4dcaa37.tar.gz | |
checkpatch: warn when a MAINTAINERS entry isn't [A-Z]:\t
For consistency, MAINTAINERS entries should be an upper case letter,
then a colon, then a tab, then the value.
Warn when an entry doesn't have this form. --fix it too.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/9aaaf03ec10adf3888b5e98dd2176b7fe9b5fad8.1496343345.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 907e079..3cf0550 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2776,6 +2776,17 @@ sub process { #print "is_start<$is_start> is_end<$is_end> length<$length>\n"; } +# check for MAINTAINERS entries that don't have the right form + if ($realfile =~ /^MAINTAINERS$/ && + $rawline =~ /^\+[A-Z]:/ && + $rawline !~ /^\+[A-Z]:\t\S/) { + if (WARN("MAINTAINERS_STYLE", + "MAINTAINERS entries use one tab after TYPE:\n" . $herecurr) && + $fix) { + $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/^(\+[A-Z]):\s*/$1:\t/; + } + } + # discourage the use of boolean for type definition attributes of Kconfig options if ($realfile =~ /Kconfig/ && $line =~ /^\+\s*\bboolean\b/) { |
