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authorChristoph Jaeger <cj@linux.com>2015-02-13 22:38:29 (GMT)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-02-14 05:21:39 (GMT)
commit327953e9af6c59ad111b28359e59e3ec0cbd71b6 (patch)
tree104db466e4293b3c0f0e1f67c5e841251a151345
parentdcaf112365369c3b55bfc37edb634dba32dde57e (diff)
downloadlinux-327953e9af6c59ad111b28359e59e3ec0cbd71b6.tar.xz
checkpatch: add check for keyword 'boolean' in Kconfig definitions
Discourage the use of keyword 'boolean' for type definition attributes of config options as support for it will be dropped later on. See http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1418003065.git.cj@linux.com Signed-off-by: Christoph Jaeger <cj@linux.com> Suggested-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Acked-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Tested-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index f130c93..6afc24b 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2357,6 +2357,13 @@ sub process {
"Use of CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is deprecated. For alternatives, see https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/23/580\n");
}
+# discourage the use of boolean for type definition attributes of Kconfig options
+ if ($realfile =~ /Kconfig/ &&
+ $line =~ /^\+\s*\bboolean\b/) {
+ WARN("CONFIG_TYPE_BOOLEAN",
+ "Use of boolean is deprecated, please use bool instead.\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
+
if (($realfile =~ /Makefile.*/ || $realfile =~ /Kbuild.*/) &&
($line =~ /\+(EXTRA_[A-Z]+FLAGS).*/)) {
my $flag = $1;