The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: warn on logging functions with KERN_<LEVEL> has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-warn-on-logging-functions-with-kern_level.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-warn-on-logging-functions-with-kern_level.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-warn-on-logging-functions-with-kern_level.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: warn on logging functions with KERN_<LEVEL> Warn on probable misuses of logging functions with KERN_<LEVEL> like pr_err(KERN_ERR "foo\n"); Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-warn-on-logging-functions-with-kern_level scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-warn-on-logging-functions-with-kern_level +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -4447,6 +4447,17 @@ sub process { } } +# check for logging functions with KERN_<LEVEL> + if ($line !~ /printk\s*\(/ && + $line =~ /\b$logFunctions\s*\(.*\b(KERN_[A-Z]+)\b/) { + my $level = $1; + if (WARN("UNNECESSARY_KERN_LEVEL", + "Possible unnecessary $level\n" . $herecurr) && + $fix) { + $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\s*$level\s*//; + } + } + # check for bad placement of section $InitAttribute (e.g.: __initdata) if ($line =~ /(\b$InitAttribute\b)/) { my $attr = $1; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are mm-utilc-add-kstrimdup.patch checkpatch-fix-spello.patch checkpatch-remove-debugging-message.patch checkpatch-update-allowed_asm_includes-macros-add-rebooth-and-timeh.patch checkpatch-enable-whitespace-checks-for-dts-files.patch checkpatch-allow-optional-shorter-config-descriptions.patch checkpatch-allow-optional-shorter-config-descriptions-v4.patch checkpatch-add-strict-test-for-concatenated-string-elements.patch checkpatch-remove-unnecessary-after-88.patch checkpatch-warn-on-macros-with-flow-control-statements.patch checkpatch-look-for-common-misspellings.patch checkpatch-add-exception-to-return-then-else-test.patch checkpatch-warn-on-logging-functions-with-kern_level.patch rtc-max77686-use-ffs-to-calculate-tm_wday.patch rtc-max77686-use-ffs-to-calculate-tm_wday-fix.patch ipc-always-handle-a-new-value-of-auto_msgmni.patch linux-next.patch lib-string_helpers-move-documentation-to-c-file.patch lib-string_helpers-refactoring-the-test-suite.patch lib-string_helpers-introduce-string_escape_mem.patch lib-vsprintf-add-%pe-format-specifier.patch wireless-libertas-print-esaped-string-via-%pe.patch wireless-ipw2x00-print-ssid-via-%pe.patch wireless-hostap-proc-print-properly-escaped-ssid.patch wireless-hostap-proc-print-properly-escaped-ssid-fix.patch wireless-hostap-proc-print-properly-escaped-ssid-fix-2.patch lib80211-remove-unused-print_ssid.patch staging-wlan-ng-use-%pehp-to-print-sn.patch staging-rtl8192e-use-%pen-to-escape-buffer.patch staging-rtl8192u-use-%pen-to-escape-buffer.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html