The patch titled checkpatch: fix extraneous EXPORT_SYMBOL* warnings has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-fix-extraneous-export_symbol-warnings.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 *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: checkpatch: fix extraneous EXPORT_SYMBOL* warnings From: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> These are caused by checkpatch incorrectly parsing its internal representation of a statement block for struct's (or anything else that is a statement block encapsulated in {}'s that also ends with a ';'). Fix this by properly parsing a statement block. An example: +struct dummy_type dummy = { + .foo = "baz", +}; +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dummy); + +static int dummy_func(void) +{ + return -EDUMMYCODE; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dummy_func); WARNING: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately \ follow its function/variable #19: FILE: dummy.c:4: +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dummy); The above warning is issued when it should not be. Signed-off-by: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-fix-extraneous-export_symbol-warnings scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-fix-extraneous-export_symbol-warnings +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -558,6 +558,9 @@ sub ctx_statement_block { $type = ($level != 0)? '{' : ''; if ($level == 0) { + if (substr($blk, $off + 1, 1) eq ';') { + $off++; + } last; } } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ppannuto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch revert-old-timer-added-usleep_range-timer.patch timer-added-usleep_range-timer.patch documentation-add-timers-timers-howtotxt.patch checkpatch-prefer-usleep_range-over-udelay.patch checkpatch-prefer-usleep_range-over-udelay-fix.patch checkpatch-warn-about-unexpectedly-long-msleeps.patch checkpatch-fix-extraneous-export_symbol-warnings.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