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| author | Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> | 2009-01-06 14:41:25 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-01-06 15:59:16 -0800 |
| commit | 080ba929651a32f1840751d2b862e64c8ee1f0c6 (patch) | |
| tree | a600273e6449d16d6256c66ea58ca060b22e8e6e /scripts | |
| parent | 86f9d059c6bc548f6337f01117897a4c823cb4ee (diff) | |
| download | linux-080ba929651a32f1840751d2b862e64c8ee1f0c6.tar.gz | |
checkpatch: try to catch missing VMLINUX_SYMBOL() in vmlinux.lds.h
Seems like every other release we have someone who updates vmlinux.lds.h and adds C-visible symbols without VMLINUX_SYMBOL() around them. So start checking the file and reject assignments which have plain symbols on either side. [apw@canonical.com: soften the check, add tests] Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 5c7fd1a4f930..705a0439b39d 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2224,6 +2224,15 @@ sub process { } } +# make sure symbols are always wrapped with VMLINUX_SYMBOL() ... +# all assignments may have only one of the following with an assignment: +# . +# ALIGN(...) +# VMLINUX_SYMBOL(...) + if ($realfile eq 'vmlinux.lds.h' && $line =~ /(?:(?:^|\s)$Ident\s*=|=\s*$Ident(?:\s|$))/) { + WARN("vmlinux.lds.h needs VMLINUX_SYMBOL() around C-visible symbols\n" . $herecurr); + } + # check for redundant bracing round if etc if ($line =~ /(^.*)\bif\b/ && $1 !~ /else\s*$/) { my ($level, $endln, @chunks) = |