checkpatch: improve the indented label test
authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Thu, 1 Jul 2021 01:56:22 +0000 (18:56 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 1 Jul 2021 18:06:06 +0000 (11:06 -0700)
commit690786511b32baba073f729844779172d2ed72b6
treef5a491a679cf1069c9ea7a3c951e73299f9651f5
parentf9363b31d769245cb7ec8a660460800d4b466911
checkpatch: improve the indented label test

checkpatch identifies a label only when a terminating colon
immediately follows an identifier.

Bitfield definitions can appear to be labels so ignore any
spaces between the identifier terminating colon and any digit
that may be used to define a bitfield length.

Miscellanea:

o Improve the initial checkpatch comment
o Use the more typical '&&' instead of 'and'
o Require the initial label character to be a non-digit
  (Can't use $Ident here because $Ident allows ## concatenation)
o Use $sline instead of $line to ignore comments
o Use '$sline !~ /.../' instead of '!($line =~ /.../)'

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/b54d673e7cde7de5de0c9ba4dd57dd0858580ca4.camel@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Manikishan Ghantasala <manikishanghantasala@gmail.com>
Cc: Alex Elder <elder@ieee.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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