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

From: "Łukasz Stelmach" <l.stelmach@samsung.com>
To: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Bartłomiej Żolnierkiewicz" <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>,
	"Marek Szyprowski" <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>,
	"Łukasz Stelmach" <l.stelmach@samsung.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: ignore generated CamelCase defines and enum values
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2020 20:49:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201022184916.7904-1-l.stelmach@samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CGME20201022184920eucas1p11fbcddc199309d9de8b57d9636d7f6fb@eucas1p1.samsung.com

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

 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
-- 
2.26.2

