On Thu, Jul 02, 2020 at 07:00:04PM +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > On 16.06.20 16:17, Tom Rini wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 02:43:07PM +0900, AKASHI Takahiro wrote: > > > >> UEFI subsystem uses utf-16 string, but checkpatch.pl complains > >> about any occurrences of L"xxx" which is definitely legal. > >> So just suppress this kind of warning. > >> Precautiously, we will check u"xxx" as well. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.aka...@linaro.org> > >> --- > >> scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- > >> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > >> > >> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl > >> index edba36565167..b3697720787c 100755 > >> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl > >> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl > >> @@ -5462,7 +5462,7 @@ sub process { > >> } > >> > >> # concatenated string without spaces between elements > >> - if ($line =~ /$String[A-Za-z0-9_]/ || $line =~ > >> /[A-Za-z0-9_]$String/) { > >> + if ($line =~ /$String[A-Za-z0-9_]/ || $line =~ > >> /([A-Za-z0-9_]+[Lu]|[A-Za-z0-9_]*[A-KM-Za-tv-z0-9_])$String/) { > >> if (CHK("CONCATENATED_STRING", > >> "Concatenated strings should use spaces between > >> elements\n" . $herecurr) && > >> $fix) { > > > > This looks like a generic checkpatch issue. I think we're a little out > > of sync with the kernel's v5.7 but this doesn't look to be fixed there > > either. Can you please submit it upstream? Thanks! > > > > Hello Tom, > > I already raised that issue to the Kernel people and they were not > interested in fixing it: > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/10/17/1086 > > Recently a lot of changes have been done to the U-Boot version of > checkpatch.pl. > > Do we want to diverge from the upstream and have a lot of work each time > we try to sync? Or should we use checkpatch.pl as is and live without > U-Boot specific stuff?
I would raise the issue with Joe again to see if he still doesn't want to support wide strings. If he doesn't I worry that since this change is outside of the new u-boot function it will get removed by accident with a future resync. -- Tom
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