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checkpatch: pull out known acceptable typedefs
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checkpatch-pull-out-known-acceptable-typedefs.patch
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Subject: checkpatch: pull out known acceptable typedefs
From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Within the type checker we have a number of common kernel types which must
be implemented as typedefs. Pull those out so that we can use the same
expressions to trigger exclusions.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-pull-out-known-acceptable-typedefs scripts/checkpatch.pl
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-pull-out-known-acceptable-typedefs
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -146,6 +146,11 @@ our $UTF8 = qr {
| \xF4[\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF]{2} # plane 16
}x;
+our $typeTypedefs = qr{(?x:
+ (?:__)?(?:u|s|be|le)(?:\d|\d\d)|
+ atomic_t
+)};
+
our @typeList = (
qr{void},
qr{(?:unsigned\s+)?char},
@@ -159,7 +164,6 @@ our @typeList = (
qr{float},
qr{double},
qr{bool},
- qr{(?:__)?(?:u|s|be|le)(?:\d|\d\d)},
qr{struct\s+$Ident},
qr{union\s+$Ident},
qr{enum\s+$Ident},
@@ -179,6 +183,7 @@ sub build_types {
(?:$Modifier\s+|const\s+)*
(?:
(?:typeof|__typeof__)\s*\(\s*\**\s*$Ident\s*\)|
+ (?:$typeTypedefs\b)|
(?:${all}\b)
)
(?:\s+$Modifier|\s+const)*
@@ -1589,6 +1594,7 @@ sub process {
if ($line =~ /\btypedef\s/ &&
$line !~ /\btypedef\s+$Type\s+\(\s*\*?$Ident\s*\)\s*\(/ &&
$line !~ /\btypedef\s+$Type\s+$Ident\s*\(/ &&
+ $line !~ /\b$typeTypedefs\b/ &&
$line !~ /\b__bitwise(?:__|)\b/) {
WARN("do not add new typedefs\n" . $herecurr);
}
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
mm-hugetlbc-make-functions-static-use-null-rather-than-0.patch
checkpatch-square-brackets-exemption-for-array-slices-in-braces.patch
checkpatch-values-double-ampersand-may-be-unary.patch
checkpatch-conditional-indent-labels-have-different-indent-rules.patch
checkpatch-switch-indent-allow-plain-return.patch
checkpatch-add-tests-for-the-attribute-matcher.patch
checkpatch-____cacheline_aligned-et-al-are-modifiers.patch
checkpatch-complex-macros-fix-up-extension-handling.patch
checkpatch-fix-up-comment-checks-search-to-scan-the-entire-block.patch
checkpatch-include-asm-checks-should-be-anchored.patch
checkpatch-reduce-warnings-for-include-of-asm-fooh-to-check-from-arch-barc.patch
checkpatch-report-any-absolute-references-to-kernel-source-files.patch
checkpatch-report-the-real-first-line-of-all-suspect-indents.patch
checkpatch-suspect-indent-skip-over-preprocessor-label-and-blank-lines.patch
checkpatch-%lx-tests-should-hand-%%-as-a-literal.patch
checkpatch-report-the-correct-lines-for-single-statement-blocks.patch
checkpatch-perform-indent-checks-on-perl.patch
checkpatch-version-022.patch
checkpatch-case-default-checks-should-only-check-changed-lines.patch
checkpatch-suppress-errors-triggered-by-short-patch.patch
checkpatch-handle-comment-quote-nesting-correctly.patch
checkpatch-check-line-endings-in-text-format-files.patch
checkpatch-suspect-indent-count-condition-lines-correctly.patch
checkpatch-ensure-we-only-apply-checks-to-the-lines-within-hunks.patch
checkpatch-version-023.patch
checkpatch-do-is-not-a-possible-type.patch
checkpatch-labels-are-not-possible-types.patch
checkpatch-handle-do-without-braces-if-we-have-enough-context.patch
checkpatch-macros-which-define-structure-members-are-not-complex.patch
checkpatch-accept-any-sized-le-be-type.patch
checkpatch-pull-out-known-acceptable-typedefs.patch
checkpatch-suspect-code-indent-must-stop-at-else-elif.patch
checkpatch-complex-macros-checks-miss-square-brackets.patch
checkpatch-define_-macros-are-real-definitions-for-exports.patch
checkpatch-trailing-statements-ensure-we-report-the-end-of-the-line.patch
checkpatch-suspect-indent-handle-macro-continuation.patch
checkpatch-allow-for-comments-either-side-of-a-brace-on-case.patch
checkpatch-version-024.patch
page-owner-tracking-leak-detector.patch
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