Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: update $logFunctions

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Mon, 2017-01-16 at 10:57 +0800, Miles Chen wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-01-13 at 00:14 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Fri, 2017-01-13 at 15:38 +0800, miles.chen@mediatek.com wrote:
> > > From: Miles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com>
> > > 
> > > Currently checkpatch.pl does not recognize printk_deferred* functions as
> > > log functions and complains about the line length of printk_deferred*
> > > functoins.  Add printk_deferred* to logFunctions to fix it.
> > 
> > Hi Miles.
> > 
> > Good idea, perhaps less good an implementation though.
> > 
> > > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > 
> > []
> > > @@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ our $zero_initializer = qr{(?:(?:0[xX])?0+$Int_type?|NULL|false)\b};
> > >  
> > >  our $logFunctions = qr{(?x:
> > >  	printk(?:_ratelimited|_once|)|
> > > -	(?:[a-z0-9]+_){1,2}(?:printk|emerg|alert|crit|err|warning|warn|notice|info|debug|dbg|vdbg|devel|cont|WARN)(?:_ratelimited|_once|)|
> > > +	(?:[a-z0-9]+_){1,2}(?:printk|emerg|alert|crit|err|warning|warn|notice|info|debug|dbg|vdbg|devel|cont|WARN|deferred)(?:_ratelimited|_once|)|
> > 
> > This should be a change on the line above like
> > 
> > 	printk(?:_ratelimited|_once|_deferred|_deferred_once|)|

> Thanks for your advice, I'll modify my patch and submit it again.


Hello again Miles.

Actually, because perl matches the shortest match first,
the deferred_once should be before the deferred above so
deferred_once matches properly too.  ie:

	printk(?:_ratelimited|_once|_deferred_once|_deferred|)|

> > Or perhaps changing both lines if there are to be
> > macros/functions like pr_<level>_deferred_once someday.
> > 
> >   	printk(?:_ratelimited|_once|_deferred|_deferred_once|)|
> > 	(?:[a-z0-9]+_){1,2}(?:printk|emerg|alert|crit|err|warning|warn|notice|info|debug|dbg|vdbg|devel|cont|WARN)(?:_ratelimited|_once|_deferred|deferred_once|)|

Here too for both lines if you submit this one.