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From: Joe Perches <coupons@perches.com>
To: Nicolai Fischer <nicolai.fischer@fau.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: apw@canonical.com, johannes.czekay@fau.de,
	linux-kernel@i4.cs.fau.de, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] checkpatch: kconfig: add missing types to regex
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 09:42:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9ece49fa7b0025d1d639859082f0408bbe5f4f49.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4899798f-46b9-32ee-4d1e-ab2b5833da08@fau.de>

On Fri, 2020-12-25 at 18:27 +0100, Nicolai Fischer wrote:
> On 12/21/20 6:17 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
[]
> > The message you used:
> > +                               WARN("CONFIG_DESCRIPTION",
> > +                                       "help text is not indented 2 spaces more than the help keyword\n" . $herecurr);
> > 
> > is IMO a bit oddly phrased and could/should test only
> > the first line after the help keyword and show the help
> > line using $hereprev.
> > 
> > The problem with $herecurr is, that it always contains the first line of the Kconfig option.
> The loop which actually determines if the warning is to be displayed, leaves $herecurr and likewise $hereprev unaffected.
> 
> So printing $hereprev would unfortunately not be any more helpful than $herecurr.

> Because $herecurr and $hereprev also contain the line number, among other things, I am not sure what would be the best way
> to address this.

There is a mechanism to create an output message block: get_stat_real
that could be used.



      reply	other threads:[~2020-12-25 17:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-14 10:24 Nicolai Fischer
2020-12-20 19:12 ` Joe Perches
2020-12-20 19:16 ` Joe Perches
2020-12-21 15:08   ` Nicolai Fischer
2020-12-21 17:17     ` Joe Perches
2020-12-25 17:27       ` Nicolai Fischer
2020-12-25 17:42         ` Joe Perches [this message]

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