checkpatch: ignore SI unit CamelCase variants like "_uV"

Many existing variable names use SI like variants that should be otherwise
obvious and acceptable.

Whitelist them from the CamelCase message.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: Phil Carmody <phil.carmody@partner.samsung.com>
Acked-by: Phil Carmody <phil.carmody@partner.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 5989415985ae..7e8aa1bb0721 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3195,7 +3195,10 @@ sub process {
 #CamelCase
                         if ($var !~ /^$Constant$/ &&
                             $var =~ /[A-Z][a-z]|[a-z][A-Z]/ &&
+#Ignore Page<foo> variants
                             $var !~ /^(?:Clear|Set|TestClear|TestSet|)Page[A-Z]/ &&
+#Ignore SI style variants like nS, mV and dB (ie: max_uV, regulator_min_uA_show)
+                            $var !~ /^(?:[a-z_]*?)_?[a-z][A-Z](?:_[a-z_]+)?$/ &&
                             !defined $camelcase{$var}) {
                                 $camelcase{$var} = 1;
                                 CHK("CAMELCASE",