The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: ignore __pure $Attribute has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-ignore-__pure-attribute.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-ignore-__pure-attribute.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-ignore-__pure-attribute.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: ignore __pure $Attribute Just like "__cold", ignore the __pure gcc attribute macro so pointer warnings aren't generated for uses like "int * __pure fn(...)" Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-ignore-__pure-attribute scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-ignore-__pure-attribute +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -278,6 +278,7 @@ our $Attribute = qr{ __noreturn| __used| __cold| + __pure| __noclone| __deprecated| __read_mostly| _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are printk-correct-timeout-comment-neaten-module_parm_desc.patch mm-utilc-add-kstrimdup.patch checkpatch-emit-an-error-when-using-predefined-timestamp-macros.patch checkpatch-improve-octal-permissions-tests.patch checkpatch-ignore-__pure-attribute.patch fs-ufs-superc-remove-unnecessary-casting.patch linux-next.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