Many existing variable names use SI like variants that
should be otherwise obvious and acceptable.

Whitelist them from the CamelCase message.

Suggested-by: Phil Carmody <phil.carm...@partner.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <j...@perches.com>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 5989415..5ada911 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3195,7 +3195,10 @@ sub process {
 #CamelCase
                        if ($var !~ /^$Constant$/ &&
                            $var =~ /[A-Z][a-z]|[a-z][A-Z]/ &&
+#Ignore Page<foo> variants
                            $var !~ 
/^(?:Clear|Set|TestClear|TestSet|)Page[A-Z]/ &&
+#Ignore SI style variants like nS, mV and dB (ie: max_uV, 
regulator_min_uA_show)
+                           $var !~ /"_[a-z][A-Z](?:_\w+)?$/ &&
                            !defined $camelcase{$var}) {
                                $camelcase{$var} = 1;
                                CHK("CAMELCASE",
-- 
1.8.1.2.459.gbcd45b4.dirty

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