Don't complain about camelcase when using SUPPORTED_*/ADVERTISED_* defines, they are part of the user api so can't be (easily) fixed.
Removes false positives in e.g. ethernet drivers like: WARNING: Avoid CamelCase: <SUPPORTED_Autoneg> + SUPPORTED_Autoneg | Signed-off-by: Jonas Gorski <j...@openwrt.org> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index b28cc38..349559a4 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2931,6 +2931,7 @@ sub process { if ($var !~ /$Constant/ && $var =~ /[A-Z]\w*[a-z]|[a-z]\w*[A-Z]/ && $var !~ /"^(?:Clear|Set|TestClear|TestSet|)Page[A-Z]/ && + $var !~ /^(?:SUPPORTED|ADVERTISED)_\w*/ && !defined $camelcase{$var}) { $camelcase{$var} = 1; WARN("CAMELCASE", -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/