Re: [PATCH V2 3/3] checkpatch: Emit an warning when floating point values are used

[Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>]

On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 03:36:25PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu,  1 Nov 2012 00:12:18 -0700
> Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> 
> > Linux kernel doesn't like floating point, say so.
> > 
> > ...
> >
> > --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > @@ -2332,6 +2332,13 @@ sub process {
> >  			     "do not add new typedefs\n" . $herecurr);
> >  		}
> >  
> > +# check for floating point constants
> > +
> > +		if ($line =~ /\b$Float\b/) {
> > +			WARN("KERNEL_FLOAT",
> > +			     "Floating point is not supported in linux kernel source\n" . $herecurr);
> > +		}
> > +
> >  # * goes on variable not on type
> >  		# (char*[ const])
> >  		while ($line =~ m{(\($NonptrType(\s*(?:$Modifier\b\s*|\*\s*)+)\))}g) {
> 
> The earlier review comments were not addressed.
> 
> In particular, I don't see a problem with people doing
> 
> 	int foo = 1.1 * 2.2;

I thought there was also now a way to enable floats in kernel space and
some use thereof.

-apw