Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Include GEM_BUG_xxx variant in the excluded check list

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Wed, 2023-06-14 at 12:49 -0400, Michael J. Ruhl wrote:
> GEM_BUG_ON is usually compiled as WARN.  You have to change to
> debug configuration to get this to be BUG.
> 
> checkpatch flags this a WARN level issue.
> 
> Since this is a i915 local debug macro, allow its use in checkpatch.pl.
> 
> Fixes: 69d517e6e210 ("checkpatch: warn on usage of VM_BUG_ON() and other BUG variants")

Not a "Fixes", just an additional check

> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael J. Ruhl <michael.j.ruhl@intel.com>
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index b30114d637c4..d3ddde4cd63e 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -4821,7 +4821,7 @@ sub process {
>  		}
>  
>  # do not use BUG() or variants
> -		if ($line =~ /\b(?!AA_|BUILD_|DCCP_|IDA_|KVM_|RWLOCK_|snd_|SPIN_)(?:[a-zA-Z_]*_)?BUG(?:_ON)?(?:_[A-Z_]+)?\s*\(/) {
> +		if ($line =~ /\b(?!AA_|BUILD_|DCCP_|GEM_|IDA_|KVM_|RWLOCK_|snd_|SPIN_)(?:[a-zA-Z_]*_)?BUG(?:_ON)?(?:_[A-Z_]+)?\s*\(/) {
>  			my $msg_level = \&WARN;
>  			$msg_level = \&CHK if ($file);
>  			&{$msg_level}("AVOID_BUG",