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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel-mentees@lists.linuxfoundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] checkpatch: extend attributes check to handle more patterns
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2020 12:36:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a2b8af8c655f28071faa24b8e60681bca40a16da.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201025193103.23223-1-dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>

On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 01:01 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> It is generally preferred that the macros from
> include/linux/compiler_attributes.h are used, unless there
> is a reason not to.
> 
> checkpatch currently checks __attribute__ for each of
> packed, aligned, section, printf, scanf, and weak. Other
> declarations in compiler_attributes.h are not handled.
> 
> Add a generic test to check the presence of such attributes.
> Some attributes require more specific handling and are kept
> separate.
> 
> Also add fixes to the generic attributes check to substitute
> the correct conversions.
	
Thanks Dwaipayan.

Andrew, can you pick this up please?

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201025193103.23223-1-dwaipayanray1@gmail.com/raw



  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-25 19:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-25 19:31 Dwaipayan Ray
2020-10-25 19:36 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2020-10-27 22:45 ` [PATCH -next] checkpatch: Update __attribute__((section("name"))) quote removal Joe Perches

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