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-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl26
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index cb19f54b4b2..e44ff91e811 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1400,18 +1400,34 @@ sub process {
}
# check for Kconfig help text having a real description
+# Only applies when adding the entry originally, after that we do not have
+# sufficient context to determine whether it is indeed long enough.
if ($realfile =~ /Kconfig/ &&
- $line =~ /\+?\s*(---)?help(---)?$/) {
+ $line =~ /\+\s*(?:---)?help(?:---)?$/) {
my $length = 0;
- for (my $l = $linenr; defined($lines[$l]); $l++) {
- my $f = $lines[$l];
+ my $cnt = $realcnt;
+ my $ln = $linenr + 1;
+ my $f;
+ my $is_end = 0;
+ while ($cnt > 0 && defined $lines[$ln - 1]) {
+ $f = $lines[$ln - 1];
+ $cnt-- if ($lines[$ln - 1] !~ /^-/);
+ $is_end = $lines[$ln - 1] =~ /^\+/;
+ $ln++;
+
+ next if ($f =~ /^-/);
+ $f =~ s/^.//;
$f =~ s/#.*//;
$f =~ s/^\s+//;
next if ($f =~ /^$/);
- last if ($f =~ /^\s*config\s/);
+ if ($f =~ /^\s*config\s/) {
+ $is_end = 1;
+ last;
+ }
$length++;
}
- WARN("please write a paragraph that describes the config symbol fully\n" . $herecurr) if ($length < 4);
+ WARN("please write a paragraph that describes the config symbol fully\n" . $herecurr) if ($is_end && $length < 4);
+ #print "is_end<$is_end> length<$length>\n";
}
# check we are in a valid source file if not then ignore this hunk