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checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over '---help---' 

IMO, we should discourage '---help---' for new help texts, even in cases
where it would be consistent with other help texts in the file. This
will help if we ever want to get rid of '---help---' in the future.

Also simplify the code to only check for exactly '---help---'. Since
commit c2264564df ("kconfig: warn of unhandled characters in Kconfig
commands"), '---help---' is a proper keyword and can only appear in that
form. Prior to that commit, '---help---' working was more of a syntactic
quirk.

Signed-off-by: Ulf Magnusson <ulfalizer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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Ulf Magnusson 2018-02-16 21:22:55 +01:00 committed by Masahiro Yamada
parent 678ae162dd
commit 84af7a6194
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@ -2817,7 +2817,11 @@ sub process {
if ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ /^\+\s*(?:bool|tristate|prompt)\s*["']/) {
$is_start = 1;
} elsif ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ /^\+\s*(?:---)?help(?:---)?$/) {
} elsif ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ /^\+\s*(?:help|---help---)\s*$/) {
if ($lines[$ln - 1] =~ "---help---") {
WARN("CONFIG_DESCRIPTION",
"prefer 'help' over '---help---' for new help texts\n" . $herecurr);
}
$length = -1;
}