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SubjectRe: [PATCH] checkpatch: Improve CamelCase test for Page
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On Fri, 2013-02-22 at 14:05 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 17:01:48 -0500
> Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2013-02-22 at 12:59 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > Add the ClearPage/SetPage/TestClearPage/TestSetPage
> > > variants to the not reported Page CamelCase variables.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> > > ---
> > > scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
> > > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > > index 747bcd7..8a32306 100755
> > > --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > > +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > > @@ -2930,7 +2930,7 @@ sub process {
> > > my $var = $1;
> > > if ($var !~ /$Constant/ &&
> > > $var =~ /[A-Z]\w*[a-z]|[a-z]\w*[A-Z]/ &&
> > > - $var !~ /^Page[A-Z]/ &&
> > > + $var !~ /"^(?:Clear|Set|TestClear|TestSet|)Page[A-Z]/ &&
> > > !defined $camelcase{$var}) {
> > > $camelcase{$var} = 1;
> > > WARN("CAMELCASE",
> > >
> >
> > In a recent patch, checkpatch gave this warning.
> >
> > WARNING: Avoid CamelCase: <tty->SAK_work>
> > #35: FILE: drivers/tty/tty_io.c:1475:
> > + flush_work(&tty->SAK_work);
>
> If we start whitelisting these things, it will never end.
>
> My (cruelly spurned) suggestion for this check is to grep the affected
> files to see if the symbol is already present and if so, don't warn.
>
> Or just revert the whole thing. I get tons of camelcase warnings, and
> they're always unuseful/incorrect/ignored.

Oh. I didn't know the impetus (although I had seen the mm variance and
wondered :)

I don't have an opinion on this. It doesn't bother me, but I'm not my
own maintainer.



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