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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2014-10-14 00:52:01 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-10-14 02:18:15 +0200
commitf78d98f6ce66fc7cc0be714d56b0240923a8b4f4 (patch)
tree36223291ffb6e126634841301453262c616a0ca7 /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parentcheckpatch: add exception to return then else test (diff)
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checkpatch: warn on logging functions with KERN_<LEVEL>
Warn on probable misuses of logging functions with KERN_<LEVEL> like pr_err(KERN_ERR "foo\n"); Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 52a223ebcd10..374abf443636 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -4447,6 +4447,17 @@ sub process {
}
}
+# check for logging functions with KERN_<LEVEL>
+ if ($line !~ /printk\s*\(/ &&
+ $line =~ /\b$logFunctions\s*\(.*\b(KERN_[A-Z]+)\b/) {
+ my $level = $1;
+ if (WARN("UNNECESSARY_KERN_LEVEL",
+ "Possible unnecessary $level\n" . $herecurr) &&
+ $fix) {
+ $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\s*$level\s*//;
+ }
+ }
+
# check for bad placement of section $InitAttribute (e.g.: __initdata)
if ($line =~ /(\b$InitAttribute\b)/) {
my $attr = $1;