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Commit ae3ccc46 authored by Fabian Frederick's avatar Fabian Frederick Committed by Linus Torvalds
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scripts/checkpatch.pl: device_initcall is not the only __initcall substitute 



This patch adds a link to init.h to find appropriate initcall function to
replace obsolete __initcall

Signed-off-by: default avatarFabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 9b3189eb

scripts/checkpatch.pl

+2 −2
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -4551,10 +4551,10 @@ sub process { 
			     "$1 is obsolete, use k$3 instead\n" . $herecurr);

		}



# check for __initcall(), use device_initcall() explicitly please

# check for __initcall(), use device_initcall() explicitly or more appropriate function please

		if ($line =~ /^.\s*__initcall\s*\(/) {

			WARN("USE_DEVICE_INITCALL",

			     "please use device_initcall() instead of __initcall()\n" . $herecurr);

			     "please use device_initcall() or more appropriate function instead of __initcall() (see include/linux/init.h)\n" . $herecurr);

		}



# check for various ops structs, ensure they are const.