(adding Andrew Morton)
On Sat, 2014-12-20 at 15:40 -0500, Christoph Jaeger wrote:
> Discourage the use of keyword 'boolean' for type definition attributes of
> config options as support for it will be dropped later on.
>
> Reference: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
> Suggested-by: Daniel Borkmann <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Jaeger <[email protected]>
Seems sensible.
> ---
> scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 +++++++
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index f0bb6d6..cae974e 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -2355,6 +2355,13 @@ sub process {
> "Use of CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL is deprecated. For
> alternatives, see https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/23/580\n";);
> }
>
> +# 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;
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