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| author | Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name> | 2021-02-26 02:22:04 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2021-02-26 18:41:04 +0100 |
| commit | 263afd39c06f5939ef943e0d535380d4b8e56484 (patch) | |
| tree | 01db01d9ad96f5b964d79c6ee7e8527d85783d75 /scripts | |
| parent | checkpatch: add kmalloc_array_node to unnecessary OOM message check (diff) | |
| download | linux-263afd39c06f5939ef943e0d535380d4b8e56484.tar.xz linux-263afd39c06f5939ef943e0d535380d4b8e56484.zip | |
checkpatch: don't warn about colon termination in linker scripts
This check erroneously flags cases like the one in my recent printk
enumeration patch[0], where the spaces are syntactic, and `section:' vs.
`section :' is syntactically important:
ERROR: space prohibited before that ':' (ctx:WxW)
#258: FILE: include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h:314:
+ .printk_fmts : AT(ADDR(.printk_fmts) - LOAD_OFFSET) {
0: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1375749/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YBwhqsc2TIVeid3t@chrisdown.name
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YB6UsjCOy1qrrlSD@chrisdown.name
Signed-off-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 3cdc0703e00f..75c93316547b 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -5044,7 +5044,7 @@ sub process { # A colon needs no spaces before when it is # terminating a case value or a label. } elsif ($opv eq ':C' || $opv eq ':L') { - if ($ctx =~ /Wx./) { + if ($ctx =~ /Wx./ and $realfile !~ m@.*\.lds\.h$@) { if (ERROR("SPACING", "space prohibited before that '$op' $at\n" . $hereptr)) { $good = rtrim($fix_elements[$n]) . trim($fix_elements[$n + 1]); |