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authorAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>2008-10-15 22:02:32 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-10-16 11:21:37 -0700
commit8ed22cad9ce16e3d8915ae75544a133c3050d96f (patch)
treeb82dc56ffae056078d65d385adb6053f7146b2ba /scripts
parentafbe8d283b97b2317dab900fb11d2a8878ee3c23 (diff)
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checkpatch: pull out known acceptable typedefs
Within the type checker we have a number of common kernel types which must be implemented as typedefs. Pull those out so that we can use the same expressions to trigger exclusions. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index bb88df2d001b..4680ccf7760c 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -146,6 +146,11 @@ our $UTF8 = qr {
| \xF4[\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF]{2} # plane 16
}x;
+our $typeTypedefs = qr{(?x:
+ (?:__)?(?:u|s|be|le)(?:\d|\d\d)|
+ atomic_t
+)};
+
our @typeList = (
qr{void},
qr{(?:unsigned\s+)?char},
@@ -159,7 +164,6 @@ our @typeList = (
qr{float},
qr{double},
qr{bool},
- qr{(?:__)?(?:u|s|be|le)(?:\d|\d\d)},
qr{struct\s+$Ident},
qr{union\s+$Ident},
qr{enum\s+$Ident},
@@ -179,6 +183,7 @@ sub build_types {
(?:$Modifier\s+|const\s+)*
(?:
(?:typeof|__typeof__)\s*\(\s*\**\s*$Ident\s*\)|
+ (?:$typeTypedefs\b)|
(?:${all}\b)
)
(?:\s+$Modifier|\s+const)*
@@ -1589,6 +1594,7 @@ sub process {
if ($line =~ /\btypedef\s/ &&
$line !~ /\btypedef\s+$Type\s+\(\s*\*?$Ident\s*\)\s*\(/ &&
$line !~ /\btypedef\s+$Type\s+$Ident\s*\(/ &&
+ $line !~ /\b$typeTypedefs\b/ &&
$line !~ /\b__bitwise(?:__|)\b/) {
WARN("do not add new typedefs\n" . $herecurr);
}