Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: ignore generated CamelCase defines and enum values

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Thu, 2020-10-22 at 20:49 +0200, Łukasz Stelmach wrote:
> Ignore autogenerated CamelCase-like defines and enum values like
> DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_Unknown or ETHTOOL_LINK_MODE_Asym_Pause_BIT.
> 
> Syggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> Signed-off-by: Łukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@samsung.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2
>  - use a more general regexp suggested by Joe Perches

Andrew, can you pick this up please?

>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index fab38b493cef..7e67d565e903 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -5295,6 +5295,8 @@ sub process {
>  #CamelCase
>  			if ($var !~ /^$Constant$/ &&
>  			    $var =~ /[A-Z][a-z]|[a-z][A-Z]/ &&
> +#Ignore some autogenerated defines and enum values
> +			    $var !~ /^(?:[A-Z]+_){1,5}[A-Z]{1,3}[a-z]/ &&
>  #Ignore Page<foo> variants
>  			    $var !~ /^(?:Clear|Set|TestClear|TestSet|)Page[A-Z]/ &&
>  #Ignore SI style variants like nS, mV and dB