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From: Wesley Wiser <wwiser@gmail.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: allow uppercase logging function names
Date: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 03:28:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1417836486.4713.2.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1417660721-13330-1-git-send-email-wwiser@gmail.com>

Hi Joe, 

Thanks for taking a look at this. Do you think I should look into
fixing the casing of these functions instead? Some of these functions
look like they're being called in a lot of places. TP_printk, for
example, is getting called over 1000 times according to git grep. 

Wesley Wiser

On Wed, 2014-12-03 at 18:47 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> I'm not sure that these should be encouraged.
> I'd prefer to make these lower case instead.
> 
> The regex also allows mixed case like Tp_printk.
> 
> Maybe if it was something like
> (?:[a-z0-9]+_|[A-Z0-9]+_){1,2}
> 
> but it still seems undesirable.



      parent reply	other threads:[~2014-12-06  3:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-04  2:38 [PATCH] checkpatch: allow uppercase logging function names Wesley Wiser
2014-12-04  2:47 ` Joe Perches
2014-12-04  8:54 ` Dan Carpenter
2014-12-06  3:28 ` Wesley Wiser [this message]

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