On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 09:42:39AM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > 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.) > For my part this is the one and only checkpatch warning which I don't enfore and happily ignore myself. Might be interesting to get feedback from others if they think it is useful or just annoying.
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