Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: forgive use of mixed case variables measuring units

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Wed, 2013-06-12 at 12:17 -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 09:02:15AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-06-12 at 15:59 +0300, Phil Carmody wrote:
> > > I agree that a creeping list of exceptions where CamelCase
> > > is to be overlooked would be bad, but I would argue that 
> > > perhaps my exceptions aren't actual CamelCase - they're
> > > (pretending to be) SI units, and just happen to match the
> > > CamelCase regexp. I did a grep for my regexp, and everything
> > > I noticed in a quick scan did look like a justifiable 
> > > variable name.
> > 
> > Maybe, but this regex misses variants like:
> > 
> > regulator_min_uA_show
> > 
> > Maybe "^[a-z_]*_[numk][VAS](?:_\w+)?$"
> > 
> > But this regex also does not match on other common
> > sound variants "_dB", "_mB" and temperature like "_mC".
> 
> And _dBm ...

As far as I can tell, all those uses are either in staging
or are in obsolete/superceded code.

There is one I think ugly variant that could be fixed:

drivers/media/dvb-frontends/stv0367_priv.h:     s32 Power_dBmx10;       /* Power of the RF signal (dBm x 10) */