linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] Revert "checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over '---help---'"

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Date:   Tue, 16 Jun 2020 21:36:42 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>,
        linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@...il.com>,
        Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Revert "checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over
 '---help---'"

On Wed, 2020-06-17 at 12:02 +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> This reverts commit 84af7a6194e493fae312a2b7fa5a3b51f76d9282.

Also: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1255848/
---
 scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py | 2 +-
 scripts/checkpatch.pl          | 6 +-----
 scripts/kconfig/lexer.l        | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py b/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py
index 00a10a293f4f..1548f9ce4682 100755
--- a/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py
+++ b/scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ REGEX_SOURCE_SYMBOL = re.compile(SOURCE_SYMBOL)
 REGEX_KCONFIG_DEF = re.compile(DEF)
 REGEX_KCONFIG_EXPR = re.compile(EXPR)
 REGEX_KCONFIG_STMT = re.compile(STMT)
-REGEX_KCONFIG_HELP = re.compile(r"^\s+(help|---help---)\s*$")
+REGEX_KCONFIG_HELP = re.compile(r"^\s+help\s*$")
 REGEX_FILTER_SYMBOLS = re.compile(r"[A-Za-z0-9]$")
 REGEX_NUMERIC = re.compile(r"0[xX][0-9a-fA-F]+|[0-9]+")
 REGEX_QUOTES = re.compile("(\"(.*?)\")")
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 524df88f9364..738bb3fcf202 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3044,11 +3044,7 @@ sub process {
 
 				if ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ /^\+\s*(?:bool|tristate|prompt)\s*["']/) {
 					$is_start = 1;
-				} elsif ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ /^\+\s*(?:help|---help---)\s*$/) {
-					if ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ "---help---") {
-						WARN("CONFIG_DESCRIPTION",
-						     "prefer 'help' over '---help---' for new help texts\n" . $herecurr);
-					}
+				} elsif ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ /^\+\s*help\s*$/) {
 					$length = -1;
 				}
 
diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/lexer.l b/scripts/kconfig/lexer.l
index 6354c905b006..4b7339ff4c8b 100644
--- a/scripts/kconfig/lexer.l
+++ b/scripts/kconfig/lexer.l
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ n	[A-Za-z0-9_-]
 "endchoice"		return T_ENDCHOICE;
 "endif"			return T_ENDIF;
 "endmenu"		return T_ENDMENU;
-"help"|"---help---"	return T_HELP;
+"help"			return T_HELP;
 "hex"			return T_HEX;
 "if"			return T_IF;
 "imply"			return T_IMPLY;