Hi Andy, hi Joe, When running checkpatch on a patch which tweaks many Kconfig entries, I got the following output:
WARNING: please write a paragraph that describes the config symbol fully #74: FILE: drivers/hid/Kconfig:142: config HID_BELKIN WARNING: please write a paragraph that describes the config symbol fully #82: FILE: drivers/hid/Kconfig:149: config HID_CHERRY WARNING: please write a paragraph that describes the config symbol fully #135: FILE: drivers/hid/Kconfig:415: config HID_MICROSOFT total: 0 errors, 3 warnings, 88 lines checked I am not adding these entries, just tweaking the dependencies. Thus I don't think it makes sense to print these warnings, they aren't relevant to the changes I am making. There comment in checkpatch says: # 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. So I suspect these warnings aren't supposed to be displayed. I recall hitting this many times in the past, in fact I think this is the most frequent and oldest false positive I get from checkpatch. So I would appreciate if this could be fixed, either by really limiting the warning to Kconfig entries being added (if you can) or by dropping the check altogether (if you can't.) Thanks, -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
