linux-kernel - Re: checkpatch: Adjust regular expressions in $logFunctions

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Message-ID: <1494364612.4564.1.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Tue, 09 May 2017 14:16:52 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:     Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: checkpatch: Adjust regular expressions in $logFunctions

On Tue, 2017-05-09 at 23:01 +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > Perl is odd enough already adding more non-capture groups
> > when the arguments are clearly specified is harder to read.
> 
> How do you think about to reformat the affected alternations?
> Will it become appropriate to give each element a separate line there?

I have no interest in changing checkpatch for no value.

_maybe_, breaking up the file into separate tests in
multiple files _could_ be useful.