The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: fix EXPORT_SYMBOL handling following a function has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-fix-export_symbol-handling-following-a-function.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/ ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: fix EXPORT_SYMBOL handling following a function The following fragment defeats the DEVICE_ATTR style handing, check for and ignore the close brace '}' in this context: int foo() { } DEVICE_ATTR(link_power_management_policy, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, ata_scsi_lpm_show, ata_scsi_lpm_put); EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(dev_attr_link_power_management_policy); Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-fix-export_symbol-handling-following-a-function scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-fix-export_symbol-handling-following-a-function +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2131,7 +2131,7 @@ sub process { # XXX(foo); # EXPORT_SYMBOL(something_foo); my $name = $1; - if ($stat =~ /^.([A-Z_]+)\s*\(\s*($Ident)/ && + if ($stat =~ /^(?:.\s*}\s*\n)?.([A-Z_]+)\s*\(\s*($Ident)/ && $name =~ /^${Ident}_$2/) { #print "FOO C name<$name>\n"; $suppress_export{$realline_next} = 1; _ Subject: Subject: checkpatch: fix EXPORT_SYMBOL handling following a function Patches currently in -mm which might be from apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch checkpatch-correctly-track-the-end-of-preprocessor-commands-in-context.patch checkpatch-check-for-common-memset-parameter-issues-against-statments.patch checkpatch-improve-memset-and-min-max-with-cast-checking.patch checkpatch-is-not-a-valid-modifier.patch checkpatch-optimise-statement-scanner-when-mid-statement.patch checkpatch-only-apply-kconfig-help-checks-for-options-which-prompt.patch checkpatch-fix-export_symbol-handling-following-a-function.patch checkpatch-complex-macro-should-allow-the-empty-do-while-loop.patch checkpatch-fix-return-is-not-a-function-square-bracket-handling.patch checkpatch-fix-complex-macros-handling-of-square-brackets.patch checkpatch-ensure-cast-type-is-unique-in-the-context-parser.patch checkpatch-typeof-may-have-more-complex-arguments.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