linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Make SI unit tolerance more lenient with 3-character units

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Date:	Fri, 07 Nov 2014 16:38:52 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Julius Werner <jwerner@...omium.org>
Cc:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Make SI unit tolerance more lenient with
 3-character units

On Fri, 2014-11-07 at 16:18 -0800, Julius Werner wrote:
> Checkpatch flags CamelCase identifiers in strict mode, but it has a
> feature to ignore parts with only two characters to allow for SI units
> like mV or uA. Unfortunately, not all SI units fit in two characters,
> and not all are lower case followed by upper case.
> 
> This patch changes the check from [a-z][A-Z] to [a-zA-Z]{1,3} (any
> combination of up to three lower and upper case characters), so that it
> will also allow units like MHz, As or KiB.
[]
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> @@ -4055,8 +4055,8 @@ sub process {
>  			    $var =~ /[A-Z][a-z]|[a-z][A-Z]/ &&
>  #Ignore Page<foo> variants
>  			    $var !~ /^(?:Clear|Set|TestClear|TestSet|)Page[A-Z]/ &&
> -#Ignore SI style variants like nS, mV and dB (ie: max_uV, regulator_min_uA_show)
> -			    $var !~ /^(?:[a-z_]*?)_?[a-z][A-Z](?:_[a-z_]+)?$/) {
> +#Ignore SI style variants like nS, mV, MHz and dB (ie: max_uV, regulator_min_uA_show)
> +			    $var !~ /^(?:[a-z_]*?)_?[a-zA-Z]{1,3}(?:_[a-z_]+)?$/) {
>  				while ($var =~ m{($Ident)}g) {
>  					my $word = $1;
>  					next if ($word !~ /[A-Z][a-z]|[a-z][A-Z]/);

I think this may miss too many uses like pDB and
other variables used for hungarian notations.

It may be better to enumerate the specific character
sequences to exempt.

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