checkpatch: add command-line option for TAB size

Linux kernel coding style requires a size of 8 characters for both TAB and
indentation, and such value is embedded as magic value allover the
checkpatch script.

This makes hard to reuse the script by other projects with different
requirements in their coding style (e.g.  OpenOCD [1] requires TAB size of
4 characters [2]).

Replace the magic value 8 with a variable.

Add a command-line option "--tab-size" to let the user select a
TAB size value other than 8.

[1] http://openocd.org/
[2] http://openocd.org/doc/doxygen/html/stylec.html#styleformat

Signed-off-by: Antonio Borneo <borneo.antonio@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Erik Ahlén <erik.ahlen@avalonenterprise.com>
Signed-off-by: Spencer Oliver <spen@spen-soft.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200122163852.124417-3-borneo.antonio@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 0d2b95036ea5..fd16f2239a00 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ my $color = "auto";
 my $allow_c99_comments = 1; # Can be overridden by --ignore C99_COMMENT_TOLERANCE
 # git output parsing needs US English output, so first set backtick child process LANGUAGE
 my $git_command ='export LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8; git';
+my $tabsize = 8;
 
 sub help {
 	my ($exitcode) = @_;
@@ -98,6 +99,7 @@ Options:
   --show-types               show the specific message type in the output
   --max-line-length=n        set the maximum line length, if exceeded, warn
   --min-conf-desc-length=n   set the min description length, if shorter, warn
+  --tab-size=n               set the number of spaces for tab (default 8)
   --root=PATH                PATH to the kernel tree root
   --no-summary               suppress the per-file summary
   --mailback                 only produce a report in case of warnings/errors
@@ -215,6 +217,7 @@ GetOptions(
 	'list-types!'	=> \$list_types,
 	'max-line-length=i' => \$max_line_length,
 	'min-conf-desc-length=i' => \$min_conf_desc_length,
+	'tab-size=i'	=> \$tabsize,
 	'root=s'	=> \$root,
 	'summary!'	=> \$summary,
 	'mailback!'	=> \$mailback,
@@ -267,6 +270,9 @@ if ($color =~ /^[01]$/) {
 	die "Invalid color mode: $color\n";
 }
 
+# skip TAB size 1 to avoid additional checks on $tabsize - 1
+die "Invalid TAB size: $tabsize\n" if ($tabsize < 2);
+
 sub hash_save_array_words {
 	my ($hashRef, $arrayRef) = @_;
 
@@ -1239,7 +1245,7 @@ sub expand_tabs {
 		if ($c eq "\t") {
 			$res .= ' ';
 			$n++;
-			for (; ($n % 8) != 0; $n++) {
+			for (; ($n % $tabsize) != 0; $n++) {
 				$res .= ' ';
 			}
 			next;
@@ -2252,7 +2258,7 @@ sub string_find_replace {
 sub tabify {
 	my ($leading) = @_;
 
-	my $source_indent = 8;
+	my $source_indent = $tabsize;
 	my $max_spaces_before_tab = $source_indent - 1;
 	my $spaces_to_tab = " " x $source_indent;
 
@@ -3231,7 +3237,7 @@ sub process {
 		next if ($realfile !~ /\.(h|c|pl|dtsi|dts)$/);
 
 # at the beginning of a line any tabs must come first and anything
-# more than 8 must use tabs.
+# more than $tabsize must use tabs.
 		if ($rawline =~ /^\+\s* \t\s*\S/ ||
 		    $rawline =~ /^\+\s*        \s*/) {
 			my $herevet = "$here\n" . cat_vet($rawline) . "\n";
@@ -3250,7 +3256,7 @@ sub process {
 				"please, no space before tabs\n" . $herevet) &&
 			    $fix) {
 				while ($fixed[$fixlinenr] =~
-					   s/(^\+.*) {8,8}\t/$1\t\t/) {}
+					   s/(^\+.*) {$tabsize,$tabsize}\t/$1\t\t/) {}
 				while ($fixed[$fixlinenr] =~
 					   s/(^\+.*) +\t/$1\t/) {}
 			}
@@ -3272,11 +3278,11 @@ sub process {
 		if ($perl_version_ok &&
 		    $sline =~ /^\+\t+( +)(?:$c90_Keywords\b|\{\s*$|\}\s*(?:else\b|while\b|\s*$)|$Declare\s*$Ident\s*[;=])/) {
 			my $indent = length($1);
-			if ($indent % 8) {
+			if ($indent % $tabsize) {
 				if (WARN("TABSTOP",
 					 "Statements should start on a tabstop\n" . $herecurr) &&
 				    $fix) {
-					$fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s@(^\+\t+) +@$1 . "\t" x ($indent/8)@e;
+					$fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s@(^\+\t+) +@$1 . "\t" x ($indent/$tabsize)@e;
 				}
 			}
 		}
@@ -3294,8 +3300,8 @@ sub process {
 				my $newindent = $2;
 
 				my $goodtabindent = $oldindent .
-					"\t" x ($pos / 8) .
-					" "  x ($pos % 8);
+					"\t" x ($pos / $tabsize) .
+					" "  x ($pos % $tabsize);
 				my $goodspaceindent = $oldindent . " "  x $pos;
 
 				if ($newindent ne $goodtabindent &&
@@ -3766,11 +3772,11 @@ sub process {
 			#print "line<$line> prevline<$prevline> indent<$indent> sindent<$sindent> check<$check> continuation<$continuation> s<$s> cond_lines<$cond_lines> stat_real<$stat_real> stat<$stat>\n";
 
 			if ($check && $s ne '' &&
-			    (($sindent % 8) != 0 ||
+			    (($sindent % $tabsize) != 0 ||
 			     ($sindent < $indent) ||
 			     ($sindent == $indent &&
 			      ($s !~ /^\s*(?:\}|\{|else\b)/)) ||
-			     ($sindent > $indent + 8))) {
+			     ($sindent > $indent + $tabsize))) {
 				WARN("SUSPECT_CODE_INDENT",
 				     "suspect code indent for conditional statements ($indent, $sindent)\n" . $herecurr . "$stat_real\n");
 			}