Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: allow optional shorter config descriptions

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Thu, 2014-09-04 at 11:23 -0700, Vadim Bendebury wrote:
> This script is used by many other projects, and in some of them the
> requirement of at least 4 line long description for all Kconfig items
> is excessive. This patch adds a command line option to control the
> required minimum length.
> 
> Tested running this script over a patch including a two line config
> description. The script generated a warning when invoked as is, and
> did not generate it when invoked with --min-conf-desc-length=2.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vadim Bendebury <vbendeb@chromium.org>
> ---
> 
> Changes in v2:
>   - modified the condition check as requested
[]
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> @@ -2280,8 +2283,10 @@ sub process {
>  				}
>  				$length++;
>  			}
> -			WARN("CONFIG_DESCRIPTION",
> -			     "please write a paragraph that describes the config symbol fully\n" . $herecurr) if ($is_start && $is_end && $length < 4);
> +			if ($is_start && $is_end && $length < $min_conf_desc_length) {
> +			    WARN("CONFIG_DESCRIPTION",
> +				 "please write a paragraph that describes the config symbol fully\n" . $herecurr)
> +			}
>  			#print "is_start<$is_start> is_end<$is_end> length<$length>\n";
>  		}
>  

Thank you but this is not quite right.

checkpatch uses tabs for indentation.

You've used 4 spaces for the WARN.