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authorMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>2008-07-23 21:28:57 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-07-24 10:47:25 -0700
commitf3db6639fee577f6ed92c0a1fc881e748c47ec48 (patch)
treedc6a84609a8838ebbf9d094f4ef67adb32eb10a9 /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parentc8cb2ca37ed51aa1f3b20e3eff1e72df1c400f70 (diff)
checkpatch: add a checkpatch warning for new uses of __initcall().
[apw@shadowen.org: generalise pattern and add tests] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 5420db6502f..cf70f123f57 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2108,6 +2108,10 @@ sub process {
if ($line =~ /\bsimple_(strto.*?)\s*\(/) {
WARN("consider using strict_$1 in preference to simple_$1\n" . $herecurr);
}
+# check for __initcall(), use device_initcall() explicitly please
+ if ($line =~ /^.\s*__initcall\s*\(/) {
+ WARN("please use device_initcall() instead of __initcall()\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
# use of NR_CPUS is usually wrong
# ignore definitions of NR_CPUS and usage to define arrays as likely right