Discourage the use of keyword 'boolean' for type definition attributes of config options as support for it will be dropped later on.
Reference: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Suggested-by: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Christoph Jaeger <[email protected]> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index f0bb6d6..cae974e 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2355,6 +2355,13 @@ sub process { "Use of CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is deprecated. For alternatives, see https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/23/580\n";); } +# discourage the use of boolean for type definition attributes of Kconfig options + if ($realfile =~ /Kconfig/ && + $line =~ /^\+\s*\bboolean\b/) { + WARN("CONFIG_TYPE_BOOLEAN", + "Use of boolean is deprecated, please use bool instead.\n" . $herecurr); + } + if (($realfile =~ /Makefile.*/ || $realfile =~ /Kbuild.*/) && ($line =~ /\+(EXTRA_[A-Z]+FLAGS).*/)) { my $flag = $1; -- 2.1.0 -- 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/
