The patch titled
Subject: checkpatch: don't test for prefer ether_addr_<foo>
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
checkpatch-dont-test-for-prefer-ether_addr_foo.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-dont-test-for-prefer-ether_addr_foo.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-dont-test-for-prefer-ether_addr_foo.patch
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From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: checkpatch: don't test for prefer ether_addr_<foo>
< sigh > Comment these tests out.
These are just too enticing to people that don't verify that
both source and dest addresses really must be __aligned(2).
It helps make Dan Carpenter happy too.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/dc32ec66d24647f4cdf824c8dfbbc59aa7ce7b7d.1472665676.git.joe@xxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg <gvrose8192@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 70 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
1 file changed, 35 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-)
diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-dont-test-for-prefer-ether_addr_foo scripts/checkpatch.pl
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-dont-test-for-prefer-ether_addr_foo
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -5554,46 +5554,46 @@ sub process {
}
# Check for memcpy(foo, bar, ETH_ALEN) that could be ether_addr_copy(foo, bar)
- if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
- 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" . "$here\n$stat\n") &&
- $fix) {
- $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\bmemcpy\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*\,\s*ETH_ALEN\s*\)/ether_addr_copy($2, $7)/;
- }
- }
+# if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
+# 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" . "$here\n$stat\n") &&
+# $fix) {
+# $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\bmemcpy\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*\,\s*ETH_ALEN\s*\)/ether_addr_copy($2, $7)/;
+# }
+# }
# Check for memcmp(foo, bar, ETH_ALEN) that could be ether_addr_equal*(foo, bar)
- if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
- defined $stat &&
- $stat =~ /^\+(?:.*?)\bmemcmp\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*\,\s*ETH_ALEN\s*\)/) {
- WARN("PREFER_ETHER_ADDR_EQUAL",
- "Prefer ether_addr_equal() or ether_addr_equal_unaligned() over memcmp()\n" . "$here\n$stat\n")
- }
+# if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
+# defined $stat &&
+# $stat =~ /^\+(?:.*?)\bmemcmp\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*\,\s*ETH_ALEN\s*\)/) {
+# WARN("PREFER_ETHER_ADDR_EQUAL",
+# "Prefer ether_addr_equal() or ether_addr_equal_unaligned() over memcmp()\n" . "$here\n$stat\n")
+# }
# check for memset(foo, 0x0, ETH_ALEN) that could be eth_zero_addr
# check for memset(foo, 0xFF, ETH_ALEN) that could be eth_broadcast_addr
- if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
- defined $stat &&
- $stat =~ /^\+(?:.*?)\bmemset\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*\,\s*ETH_ALEN\s*\)/) {
-
- my $ms_val = $7;
-
- if ($ms_val =~ /^(?:0x|)0+$/i) {
- if (WARN("PREFER_ETH_ZERO_ADDR",
- "Prefer eth_zero_addr over memset()\n" . "$here\n$stat\n") &&
- $fix) {
- $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\bmemset\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*ETH_ALEN\s*\)/eth_zero_addr($2)/;
- }
- } elsif ($ms_val =~ /^(?:0xff|255)$/i) {
- if (WARN("PREFER_ETH_BROADCAST_ADDR",
- "Prefer eth_broadcast_addr() over memset()\n" . "$here\n$stat\n") &&
- $fix) {
- $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\bmemset\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*ETH_ALEN\s*\)/eth_broadcast_addr($2)/;
- }
- }
- }
+# if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
+# defined $stat &&
+# $stat =~ /^\+(?:.*?)\bmemset\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*\,\s*ETH_ALEN\s*\)/) {
+#
+# my $ms_val = $7;
+#
+# if ($ms_val =~ /^(?:0x|)0+$/i) {
+# if (WARN("PREFER_ETH_ZERO_ADDR",
+# "Prefer eth_zero_addr over memset()\n" . "$here\n$stat\n") &&
+# $fix) {
+# $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\bmemset\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*ETH_ALEN\s*\)/eth_zero_addr($2)/;
+# }
+# } elsif ($ms_val =~ /^(?:0xff|255)$/i) {
+# if (WARN("PREFER_ETH_BROADCAST_ADDR",
+# "Prefer eth_broadcast_addr() over memset()\n" . "$here\n$stat\n") &&
+# $fix) {
+# $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\bmemset\s*\(\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*$FuncArg\s*,\s*ETH_ALEN\s*\)/eth_broadcast_addr($2)/;
+# }
+# }
+# }
# typecasts on min/max could be min_t/max_t
if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are
wd719x-remove-last-declaration-using-define_pci_device_table.patch
treewide-remove-references-to-the-now-unnecessary-define_pci_device_table.patch
seq-proc-modify-seq_put_decimal_ll-to-take-a-const-char-not-char.patch
meminfo-break-apart-a-very-long-seq_printf-with-ifdefs.patch
spellingtxt-modeled-is-spelt-correctly.patch
checkpatch-see-if-modified-files-are-marked-obsolete-in-maintainers.patch
checkpatch-look-for-symbolic-permissions-and-suggest-octal-instead.patch
checkpatch-test-multiple-line-block-comment-alignment.patch
checkpatch-dont-test-for-prefer-ether_addr_foo.patch
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