For consistency, MAINTAINERS entries should be an upper case letter, then a colon, then a tab, then the value.
Warn when an entry doesn't have this form. --fix it too. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index b86ff852b241..7fcaf5ca997b 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2776,6 +2776,17 @@ sub process { #print "is_start<$is_start> is_end<$is_end> length<$length>\n"; } +# check for MAINTAINERS entries that don't have the right form + if ($realfile =~ /^MAINTAINERS$/ && + $rawline =~ /^\+[A-Z]:/ && + $rawline !~ /^\+[A-Z]:\t\S/) { + if (WARN("MAINTAINERS_STYLE", + "MAINTAINERS entries use one tab after TYPE:\n" . $herecurr) && + $fix) { + $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/^(\+[A-Z]):\s*/$1:\t/; + } + } + # discourage the use of boolean for type definition attributes of Kconfig options if ($realfile =~ /Kconfig/ && $line =~ /^\+\s*\bboolean\b/) { -- 2.10.0.rc2.1.g053435c
