Commit 56e77d70 authored Feb 21, 2013 by Joe Perches Committed by Linus Torvalds Feb 21, 2013

checkpatch: warn on unnecessary __dev<foo> section markings



Get people to stop adding __devinit and __devexit section markings.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent dc139313

scripts/checkpatch.pl

+6 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1931,6 +1931,12 @@ sub process {
		"use the SSYNC() macro in asm/blackfin.h\n" . $herevet);
		}

		# check for old HOTPLUG __dev<foo> section markings
		if ($line =~ /\b(__dev(init\|exit)(data\|const\|))\b/) {
		WARN("HOTPLUG_SECTION",
		"Using $1 is unnecessary\n" . $herecurr);
		}

		# Check for potential 'bare' types
		my ($stat, $cond, $line_nr_next, $remain_next, $off_next,
		$realline_next);