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| author | Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> | 2011-01-12 17:00:00 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-01-13 08:03:11 -0800 |
| commit | 3d130fd03e06672f7700e2cb694b29f9a98227ca (patch) | |
| tree | 65608fc8841362c586cdfd06b69389165753ae93 | |
| parent | 88f8831c055858179a7844d9dd4ddd7d3621322e (diff) | |
| download | lwn-3d130fd03e06672f7700e2cb694b29f9a98227ca.tar.gz lwn-3d130fd03e06672f7700e2cb694b29f9a98227ca.zip | |
checkpatch.pl: add "prefer __packed" check
There's a __packed #define for __attribute__((packed)). Add a checkpatch
to tell people about it.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index fd9560ea976c..4c0383da1c9a 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2743,6 +2743,11 @@ sub process { WARN("plain inline is preferred over $1\n" . $herecurr); } +# Check for __attribute__ packed, prefer __packed + if ($line =~ /\b__attribute__\s*\(\s*\(.*\bpacked\b/) { + WARN("__packed is preferred over __attribute__((packed))\n" . $herecurr); + } + # check for sizeof(&) if ($line =~ /\bsizeof\s*\(\s*\&/) { WARN("sizeof(& should be avoided\n" . $herecurr); |