linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/4] checkpatch: replace magic value for TAB size

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Message-Id: <20190508122721.7513-4-borneo.antonio@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed,  8 May 2019 14:27:21 +0200
From:   Antonio Borneo <borneo.antonio@...il.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 4/4] checkpatch: replace magic value for TAB size

The size of 8 characters used for both TAB and indentation is
embedded as magic value allover the checkpatch script, and this
makes the script less readable.

Replace the magic value 8 with the perl variable "$tabsize".
>From the context of the code it's clear if it is used for
indentation or tabulation, so no need to use two separate
variables.

As side benefit of this change, it makes easy to replace the TAB
size when this script is used by other projects with different
requirements in their coding style (e.g. OpenOCD [1] requires
TAB size of 4 characters [2]).
In these cases the script will be probably modified and adapted,
so there is no need (at least for the moment) to expose this
setting on the script's command line.

[1] http://openocd.org/
[2] http://openocd.org/doc/doxygen/html/stylec.html#styleformat

Signed-off-by: Antonio Borneo <borneo.antonio@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Erik Ahlén <erik.ahlen@...lonenterprise.com>
Signed-off-by: Spencer Oliver <spen@...n-soft.co.uk>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 21 +++++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 373ad345f732..3c8115600516 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ my $conststructsfile = "$D/const_structs.checkpatch";
 my $typedefsfile = "";
 my $color = "auto";
 my $allow_c99_comments = 1; # Can be overridden by --ignore C99_COMMENT_TOLERANCE
+my $tabsize = 8;
 
 sub help {
 	my ($exitcode) = @_;
@@ -1211,7 +1212,7 @@ sub expand_tabs {
 		if ($c eq "\t") {
 			$res .= ' ';
 			$n++;
-			for (; ($n % 8) != 0; $n++) {
+			for (; ($n % $tabsize) != 0; $n++) {
 				$res .= ' ';
 			}
 			next;
@@ -2224,7 +2225,7 @@ sub string_find_replace {
 sub tabify {
 	my ($leading) = @_;
 
-	my $source_indent = 8;
+	my $source_indent = $tabsize;
 	my $max_spaces_before_tab = $source_indent - 1;
 	my $spaces_to_tab = " " x $source_indent;
 
@@ -3153,7 +3154,7 @@ sub process {
 		next if ($realfile !~ /\.(h|c|pl|dtsi|dts)$/);
 
 # at the beginning of a line any tabs must come first and anything
-# more than 8 must use tabs.
+# more than $tabsize must use tabs.
 		if ($rawline =~ /^\+\s* \t\s*\S/ ||
 		    $rawline =~ /^\+\s*        \s*/) {
 			my $herevet = "$here\n" . cat_vet($rawline) . "\n";
@@ -3172,7 +3173,7 @@ sub process {
 				"please, no space before tabs\n" . $herevet) &&
 			    $fix) {
 				while ($fixed[$fixlinenr] =~
-					   s/(^\+.*) {8,8}\t/$1\t\t/) {}
+					   s/(^\+.*) {$tabsize,$tabsize}\t/$1\t\t/) {}
 				while ($fixed[$fixlinenr] =~
 					   s/(^\+.*) +\t/$1\t/) {}
 			}
@@ -3194,11 +3195,11 @@ sub process {
 		if ($perl_version_ok &&
 		    $sline =~ /^\+\t+( +)(?:$c90_Keywords\b|\{\s*$|\}\s*(?:else\b|while\b|\s*$)|$Declare\s*$Ident\s*[;=])/) {
 			my $indent = length($1);
-			if ($indent % 8) {
+			if ($indent % $tabsize) {
 				if (WARN("TABSTOP",
 					 "Statements should start on a tabstop\n" . $herecurr) &&
 				    $fix) {
-					$fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s@(^\+\t+) +@$1 . "\t" x ($indent/8)@e;
+					$fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s@(^\+\t+) +@$1 . "\t" x ($indent/$tabsize)@e;
 				}
 			}
 		}
@@ -3216,8 +3217,8 @@ sub process {
 				my $newindent = $2;
 
 				my $goodtabindent = $oldindent .
-					"\t" x ($pos / 8) .
-					" "  x ($pos % 8);
+					"\t" x ($pos / $tabsize) .
+					" "  x ($pos % $tabsize);
 				my $goodspaceindent = $oldindent . " "  x $pos;
 
 				if ($newindent ne $goodtabindent &&
@@ -3688,11 +3689,11 @@ sub process {
 			#print "line<$line> prevline<$prevline> indent<$indent> sindent<$sindent> check<$check> continuation<$continuation> s<$s> cond_lines<$cond_lines> stat_real<$stat_real> stat<$stat>\n";
 
 			if ($check && $s ne '' &&
-			    (($sindent % 8) != 0 ||
+			    (($sindent % $tabsize) != 0 ||
 			     ($sindent < $indent) ||
 			     ($sindent == $indent &&
 			      ($s !~ /^\s*(?:\}|\{|else\b)/)) ||
-			     ($sindent > $indent + 8))) {
+			     ($sindent > $indent + $tabsize))) {
 				WARN("SUSPECT_CODE_INDENT",
 				     "suspect code indent for conditional statements ($indent, $sindent)\n" . $herecurr . "$stat_real\n");
 			}
-- 
2.21.0