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Commit 39b7e287 authored Jul 25, 2011 by Joe Perches Committed by Linus Torvalds Jul 25, 2011

checkpatch: add a "prefer __aligned" check

Prefer the use of __aligned(size) over __attribute__((__aligned___(size)))

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110609094526.1571774c.akpm@linux-foundation.org

Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

parent 20112475

scripts/checkpatch.pl

+5 −0

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		@@ -2891,6 +2891,11 @@ sub process {
		WARN("__packed is preferred over __attribute__((packed))\n" . $herecurr);
		}

		# Check for __attribute__ aligned, prefer __aligned
		if ($line =~ /\b__attribute__\s\(\s\(.*aligned/) {
		WARN("__aligned(size) is preferred over __attribute__((aligned(size)))\n" . $herecurr);
		}

		# check for sizeof(&)
		if ($line =~ /\bsizeof\s\(\s\&/) {
		WARN("sizeof(& should be avoided\n" . $herecurr);