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| author | Joe Perches <[email protected]> | 2011-07-25 17:13:24 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> | 2011-07-25 20:57:16 -0700 |
| commit | 39b7e2878e783af027ddd3530f7a0abec330905d (patch) | |
| tree | f8b5adf97fc9806310c560e12463d1cb56c20b2f | |
| parent | 2011247550c1b903a9ecd68f6eb3e9e7b7b07f52 (diff) | |
checkpatch: add a "prefer __aligned" check
Prefer the use of __aligned(size) over __attribute__((__aligned___(size)))
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
| -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 b14f830cb0fa..8f35f0e03518 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2891,6 +2891,11 @@ sub process { WARN("__packed is preferred over __attribute__((packed))\n" . $herecurr); } +# Check for __attribute__ aligned, prefer __aligned + if ($line =~ /\b__attribute__\s*\(\s*\(.*aligned/) { + WARN("__aligned(size) is preferred over __attribute__((aligned(size)))\n" . $herecurr); + } + # check for sizeof(&) if ($line =~ /\bsizeof\s*\(\s*\&/) { WARN("sizeof(& should be avoided\n" . $herecurr); |