checkpatch: warn on CamelCase variable names
authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:02:07 +0000 (16:02 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 18 Dec 2012 01:15:19 +0000 (17:15 -0800)
Store the camelcase variables in a hash and only emit a warning on the
first use of each new variable.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
scripts/checkpatch.pl

index 9de3a69..1d6e4c5 100755 (executable)
@@ -1398,6 +1398,8 @@ sub process {
        my %suppress_export;
        my $suppress_statement = 0;
 
+       my %camelcase = ();
+
        # Pre-scan the patch sanitizing the lines.
        # Pre-scan the patch looking for any __setup documentation.
        #
@@ -2905,12 +2907,17 @@ sub process {
                        }
                }
 
-#studly caps, commented out until figure out how to distinguish between use of existing and adding new
-#              if (($line=~/[\w_][a-z\d]+[A-Z]/) and !($line=~/print/)) {
-#                  print "No studly caps, use _\n";
-#                  print "$herecurr";
-#                  $clean = 0;
-#              }
+#CamelCase
+               while ($line =~ m{($Constant|$Lval)}g) {
+                       my $var = $1;
+                       if ($var !~ /$Constant/ &&
+                           $var =~ /[A-Z]\w*[a-z]|[a-z]\w*[A-Z]/ &&
+                           !defined $camelcase{$var}) {
+                               $camelcase{$var} = 1;
+                               WARN("CAMELCASE",
+                                    "Avoid CamelCase: <$var>\n" . $herecurr);
+                       }
+               }
 
 #no spaces allowed after \ in define
                if ($line=~/\#\s*define.*\\\s$/) {