Current help text check only check a config option if it is followed by another config. Adding check for help text if the next entry is menuconfig, choice/ endchoice, comment, menu/endmenu, if/endif, source or end of file.
Signed-off-by: Yingjoe Chen <yingjoe.c...@mediatek.com> --- Change in v2: - Change according to Joe Perches' suggestion scripts/checkpatch.pl | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 3cb7c2d..403ebbc 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2563,6 +2563,12 @@ sub process { next if ($f =~ /^-/); last if (!$file && $f =~ /^\@\@/); + if ($f !~ /^[+\- ]/) { + # End of file + $is_end = 1; + last; + } + if ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ /^\+\s*(?:bool|tristate)\s*\"/) { $is_start = 1; } elsif ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ /^\+\s*(?:---)?help(?:---)?$/) { @@ -2573,7 +2579,7 @@ sub process { $f =~ s/#.*//; $f =~ s/^\s+//; next if ($f =~ /^$/); - if ($f =~ /^\s*config\s/) { + if ($f =~ /^(?:config\s|menuconfig\s|choice\s|endchoice\s*$|comment\s|menu\s|endmenu\s*$|if\s|endif\s*$|source\s)/) { $is_end = 1; last; } -- 1.9.1