On Wed, 2020-12-09 at 15:24 +0100, Nicolai Fischer wrote: > We understand that checkpatch may not be the ideal place for all of these > checks.
So please work on an ideal thing. > However the current implementation has some problems we would like to fix. > Would you be interested in a patch series addressing just the check for the > number of lines? > Specifically: > 1) > > > > > > > > I believe all the '---help---' lines have been converted to just 'help' > > > so the '(?:---)?' bits here could be removed. > > > > Yes. > > > 2) add string, hex and int types to the $is_start regex sure > 3) improve the help message to include the number of present and expected > lines no. The concept of a required paragraph is still dubious. > 4) Warn if help text is not followed by a blank line or endif How often is it now not followed by a blank line or endif?
