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From:   Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc:     Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>, Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>,
        Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>,
        Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>,
        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: Support wide strings
Date:   Sun,  1 Aug 2021 17:07:35 -0600
Message-Id: <20210801170733.1.I3f9784fd3c1007d08ec2e70b151d137687575495@changeid>
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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>

Allow prefixing typical strings with L for wide strings and u for
unicode strings.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
---

 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 461d4221e4a4a1..a65753c05a6936 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ our $Binary	= qr{(?i)0b[01]+$Int_type?};
 our $Hex	= qr{(?i)0x[0-9a-f]+$Int_type?};
 our $Int	= qr{[0-9]+$Int_type?};
 our $Octal	= qr{0[0-7]+$Int_type?};
-our $String	= qr{"[X\t]*"};
+our $String	= qr{(?:\b[Lu])?"[X\t]*"};
 our $Float_hex	= qr{(?i)0x[0-9a-f]+p-?[0-9]+[fl]?};
 our $Float_dec	= qr{(?i)(?:[0-9]+\.[0-9]*|[0-9]*\.[0-9]+)(?:e-?[0-9]+)?[fl]?};
 our $Float_int	= qr{(?i)[0-9]+e-?[0-9]+[fl]?};
@@ -6132,7 +6132,8 @@ sub process {
 		}
 
 # concatenated string without spaces between elements
-		if ($line =~ /$String[A-Za-z0-9_]/ || $line =~ /[A-Za-z0-9_]$String/) {
+		if ($line =~ /$String[A-Z_]/ ||
+		    ($line =~ /([A-Za-z0-9_]+)$String/ && $1 !~ /^[Lu]$/)) {
 			if (CHK("CONCATENATED_STRING",
 				"Concatenated strings should use spaces between elements\n" . $herecurr) &&
 			    $fix) {
@@ -6145,7 +6146,7 @@ sub process {
 		}
 
 # uncoalesced string fragments
-		if ($line =~ /$String\s*"/) {
+		if ($line =~ /$String\s*[Lu]?"/) {
 			if (WARN("STRING_FRAGMENTS",
 				 "Consecutive strings are generally better as a single string\n" . $herecurr) &&
 			    $fix) {
-- 
2.32.0.554.ge1b32706d8-goog