Re: [PATCH] Revert "checkpatch: add check for keyword 'boolean' in Kconfig definitions"

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2021-01-27 at 04:15 +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> This reverts commit 327953e9af6c59ad111b28359e59e3ec0cbd71b6.
> 
> You cannot use 'boolean' since commit b92d804a5179 ("kconfig: drop
> 'boolean' keyword").
> 
> This check is no longer needed.

Thanks.

> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahi...@kernel.org>

Acked-by: Joe Perches <j...@perches.com>

> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> @@ -3390,13 +3390,6 @@ sub process {
>                       }
>               }
>  
> -# 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;