The check for a missing or short help text only considers symbols with a
prompt, but doesn't recognize any of the following as a prompt:

        bool 'foo'
        tristate 'foo'
        prompt "foo"
        prompt 'foo'

Make the check recognize those too.

Signed-off-by: Ulf Magnusson <[email protected]>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 3d4040322ae1..2b404317daea 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2812,7 +2812,7 @@ sub process {
                                next if ($f =~ /^-/);
                                last if (!$file && $f =~ /^\@\@/);
 
-                               if ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ 
/^\+\s*(?:bool|tristate)\s*\"/) {
+                               if ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ 
/^\+\s*(?:bool|tristate|prompt)\s*["']/) {
                                        $is_start = 1;
                                } elsif ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ 
/^\+\s*(?:---)?help(?:---)?$/) {
                                        $length = -1;
-- 
2.14.1

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