The patch titled
Subject: checkpatch: add __alias and __weak to suggested __attribute__ conversions
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
checkpatch-add-__alias-and-__weak-to-suggested-__attribute__-conversions.patch
This patch should soon appear at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-add-__alias-and-__weak-to-suggested-__attribute__-conversions.patch
and later at
https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-add-__alias-and-__weak-to-suggested-__attribute__-conversions.patch
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From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: checkpatch: add __alias and __weak to suggested __attribute__ conversions
Add __alias and __weak to the suggested __attribute__((<foo>))
conversions.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7b74137743c58ce0633ec4d575b94e2210e4dbe7.camel@xxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-add-__alias-and-__weak-to-suggested-__attribute__-conversions
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -6200,6 +6200,7 @@ sub process {
$attr =~ s/\s*\(\s*(.*)\)\s*/$1/;
my %attr_list = (
+ "alias" => "__alias",
"aligned" => "__aligned",
"always_inline" => "__always_inline",
"assume_aligned" => "__assume_aligned",
@@ -6220,7 +6221,8 @@ sub process {
"packed" => "__packed",
"pure" => "__pure",
"section" => "__section",
- "used" => "__used"
+ "used" => "__used",
+ "weak" => "__weak"
);
while ($attr =~ /\s*(\w+)\s*(${balanced_parens})?/g) {
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-zswap-make-struct-kernel_param_ops-definitions-const.patch
treewide-remove-stringification-from-__alias-macro-definition.patch
checkpatch-prefer-static-const-declarations.patch
checkpatch-allow-fix-removal-of-unnecessary-break-statements.patch
checkpatch-update-__attribute__sectionname-quote-removal.patch
checkpatch-update-__attribute__sectionname-quote-removal-v2.patch
checkpatch-add-__alias-and-__weak-to-suggested-__attribute__-conversions.patch
