linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: whitelist SUPPORTED_*/ADVERTISED

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Message-ID: <1365879943.2358.14.camel@joe-AO722>
Date:	Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:05:43 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Jonas Gorski <jogo@...nwrt.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: whitelist SUPPORTED_*/ADVERTISED_* defines
 from ethtool.h

On Sat, 2013-04-13 at 16:10 +0200, Jonas Gorski wrote:
> Don't complain about camelcase when using SUPPORTED_*/ADVERTISED_*
> defines, they are part of the user api so can't be (easily) fixed.

CamelCase was downgraded recently to a --strict test.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/4/11/273

Still, there's a large quantity of CamelCase names in
include/... that would still exist in any case.

A complete whitelist would be very long.

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