Re: [PATCH] net: make config lines follow common pattern
Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 2023-11-23 at 12:12 +0100, Lukas Bulwahn wrote: > The Kconfig parser is quite relaxed when parsing config definition lines. > However, there are just a few config definition lines that do not follow > the common regular expression 'config [0-9A-Z]', i.e., there are only a few > cases where config is not followed by exactly one whitespace. > > To simplify life for kernel developers that use basic regular expressions > to find and extract kernel configs, make all config lines follow this > common pattern. > > No functional change, just helpful stylistic clean-up. > > Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <[email protected]> IMHO this is a bit too much noise for a small gain: simple REs can match all the existing patterns with 100% accuracy. I think this should be dropped. Cheers, Paolo