Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: forgive use of mixed case variablesmeasuring units

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2013-05-29 at 14:02 +0300, Phil Carmody wrote:
> I don't think anyone really has an issue with things like max_mV.
> And whilst nS et al. may not be SI standard, at least it's clear
> what they represent.
[]
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> @@ -2940,6 +2940,7 @@ sub process {
>  			if ($var !~ /$Constant/ &&
>  			    $var =~ /[A-Z]\w*[a-z]|[a-z]\w*[A-Z]/ &&
>  			    $var !~ /"^(?:Clear|Set|TestClear|TestSet|)Page[A-Z]/ &&
> +			    $var !~ /^[a-z_]*_[numk][VAS]$/ &&
>  			    !defined $camelcase{$var}) {
>  				$camelcase{$var} = 1;
>  				WARN("CAMELCASE",

Hi Phil.

CamelCase was downgraded to a --strict only (CHK)
test in -next recently.  commit f0e8102413
("checkpatch: change CamelCase test and make it --strict")

I'm hesitant to add a longish whitelist inside
checkpatch itself, but if it's added, it should
probably be an array.


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