Checkpatch presumes attributes marked with __aligned(alignment) are part of a function declaration and throws a warning stating that those compiler attributes should have an identifier name which is not correct. Add __aligned compiler attributes to the list of attribute notes so they don't cause warnings anymore. Signed-off-by: Marcelo Schmitt <marcelo.schmitt@xxxxxxxxxx> --- The patch that would trigger the mentioned checkpatch warning in this series is patch number 12 (iio: adc: Add support for AD7091R-8). scripts/checkpatch.pl | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 25fdb7fda112..e6773ae0ad08 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -512,6 +512,7 @@ our $Attribute = qr{ __ro_after_init| __kprobes| $InitAttribute| + __aligned| ____cacheline_aligned| ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp| ____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp| -- 2.42.0