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Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Ignore ETHTOOL_LINK_MODE_ enum values
From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To:     Gerhard Engleder <gerhard@engleder-embedded.com>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc:     apw@canonical.com, dwaipayanray1@gmail.com, lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Date:   Fri, 30 Dec 2022 12:31:12 -0800
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On Fri, 2022-12-30 at 20:59 +0100, Gerhard Engleder wrote:
> Since commit 4104a20646 enum values like
> ETHTOOL_LINK_MODE_Asym_Pause_BIT are ignored. But there are other enums
> like ETHTOOL_LINK_MODE_1000baseT_Full_BIT, which are not ignored
> because of the not matching '1000baseT' substring.
> 
> Extend regex to match also substrings like '1000baseT'.
[]
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> @@ -5780,7 +5780,7 @@ sub process {
>  			if ($var !~ /^$Constant$/ &&
>  			    $var =~ /[A-Z][a-z]|[a-z][A-Z]/ &&
>  #Ignore some autogenerated defines and enum values
> -			    $var !~ /^(?:[A-Z]+_){1,5}[A-Z]{1,3}[a-z]/ &&
> +			    $var !~ /^(?:[A-Z]+_){1,5}([A-Z]{1,3}[a-z]|[0-9]+[a-z]+[A-Z])/ &&

NAK.

This introduces an unnecessary capture group and as well it would also
allow too many other variants that should get a warning.

Try a git grep using that pattern and see if all the matches are
actually what you want to allow

$ git grep -Poh '\b(?:[A-Z]+_){1,5}([A-Z]{1,3}[a-z]|[0-9]+[a-z]+[A-Z])\w*\b' -- '*.[ch]' | \
  sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
...