checkpatch: allow certain SI units with three characters
authorJulius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Wed, 10 Dec 2014 23:51:54 +0000 (15:51 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 11 Dec 2014 01:41:12 +0000 (17:41 -0800)
commitf512357646268451da0d7e1e0100c55df6c8cea6
treeffbc2b97e5e37b01e4479be979c1ef8d6eee540c
parentea4acbb11e32a2a1e7d80aa3d3039f909647ceee
checkpatch: allow certain SI units with three characters

Checkpatch flags CamelCase identifiers in strict mode, but it has a
feature to ignore parts with only two characters to allow for SI units
like mV or uA.  Unfortunately, not all SI units fit in two characters, and
not all are lower case followed by upper case.

This patch adds hardcoded detection for frequency and 1024-based size
units (Hz/KHz/MHz/GHz/THz and KiB/MiB/GiB/TiB), since allowing any three
character combinations might be too lenient.  The list can later be
expanded as needed.

Signed-off-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@chromium.org>
Acked-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>
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