The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: add multi-line handling for PREFER_ETHER_ADDR_COPY has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-add-multi-line-handling-for-prefer_ether_addr_copy.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-add-multi-line-handling-for-prefer_ether_addr_copy.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-add-multi-line-handling-for-prefer_ether_addr_copy.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: Mateusz Kulikowski <mateusz.kulikowski@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: add multi-line handling for PREFER_ETHER_ADDR_COPY Handle multi-line memcpy() properly. Signed-off-by: Mateusz Kulikowski <mateusz.kulikowski@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-add-multi-line-handling-for-prefer_ether_addr_copy scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-add-multi-line-handling-for-prefer_ether_addr_copy +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -5149,9 +5149,10 @@ sub process { # Check for memcpy(foo, bar, ETH_ALEN) that could be ether_addr_copy(foo, bar) if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 && - $line =~ /^\+(?:.*?)\bmemcpy\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*\,\s*ETH_ALEN\s*\)/s) { + defined $stat && + $stat =~ /^\+(?:.*?)\bmemcpy\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*\,\s*ETH_ALEN\s*\)/) { if (WARN("PREFER_ETHER_ADDR_COPY", - "Prefer ether_addr_copy() over memcpy() if the Ethernet addresses are __aligned(2)\n" . $herecurr) && + "Prefer ether_addr_copy() over memcpy() if the Ethernet addresses are __aligned(2)\n" . "$here\n$stat\n") && $fix) { $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\bmemcpy\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*\,\s*ETH_ALEN\s*\)/ether_addr_copy($2, $7)/; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from mateusz.kulikowski@xxxxxxxxx are checkpatch-suggest-using-ether_addr_equal.patch checkpatch-fix-processing-of-memset-issues.patch checkpatch-suggest-using-eth_zero_addr-and-eth_broadcast_addr.patch checkpatch-add-multi-line-handling-for-prefer_ether_addr_copy.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