linux-toradex.git/Documentation/dev-tools/checkpatch.rst, branch v7.0-rc7 Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm 2026-02-12T20:13:01+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2026-02-12T20:13:01+00:00 136114e0abf03005e182d75761ab694648e6d388 Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim suballocator free bg" saves disk space by teaching ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group space (Heming Zhao) - "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs" adds the ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in various places (Alejandro Colomar) - "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than PAGE_SIZE" makes the vmcore code future-safe, if VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the page size (Pnina Feder) - "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module buildid" cleans up kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes an invalid access crash when printing backtraces (Petr Mladek) - "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()" fixes a kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage kernel on x86 (Harshit Mogalapalli) - "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" updates the kexec handover ABI documentation (Mike Rapoport) - "Align atomic storage" adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and atomic64_t definitions to get natural alignment of both types on csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh (Finn Thain) - "kho: clean up page initialization logic" simplifies the page initialization logic in kho_restore_page() (Pratyush Yadav) - "Unload linux/kernel.h" moves several things out of kernel.h and into more appropriate places (Yury Norov) - "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" removes the usage of ->group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov) - "list private v2 & luo flb" adds some infrastructure improvements to the live update orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin) * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (107 commits) watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat() watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs() kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages() tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state liveupdate: luo_file: Use private list list: add kunit test for private list primitives list: add primitives for private list manipulations delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task() RDMA/umem: don't abuse current->group_leader drm/pan*: don't abuse current->group_leader drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current->group_leader android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc->tsk, current) in binder_mmap() android/binder: don't abuse current->group_leader kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas ... 
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "ocfs2: give ocfs2 the ability to reclaim suballocator free bg" saves
   disk space by teaching ocfs2 to reclaim suballocator block group
   space (Heming Zhao)

 - "Add ARRAY_END(), and use it to fix off-by-one bugs" adds the
   ARRAY_END() macro and uses it in various places (Alejandro Colomar)

 - "vmcoreinfo: support VMCOREINFO_BYTES larger than PAGE_SIZE" makes
   the vmcore code future-safe, if VMCOREINFO_BYTES ever exceeds the
   page size (Pnina Feder)

 - "kallsyms: Prevent invalid access when showing module buildid" cleans
   up kallsyms code related to module buildid and fixes an invalid
   access crash when printing backtraces (Petr Mladek)

 - "Address page fault in ima_restore_measurement_list()" fixes a
   kexec-related crash that can occur when booting the second-stage
   kernel on x86 (Harshit Mogalapalli)

 - "kho: ABI headers and Documentation updates" updates the kexec
   handover ABI documentation (Mike Rapoport)

 - "Align atomic storage" adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and
   atomic64_t definitions to get natural alignment of both types on
   csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh (Finn Thain)

 - "kho: clean up page initialization logic" simplifies the page
   initialization logic in kho_restore_page() (Pratyush Yadav)

 - "Unload linux/kernel.h" moves several things out of kernel.h and into
   more appropriate places (Yury Norov)

 - "don't abuse task_struct.group_leader" removes the usage of
   ->group_leader when it is "obviously unnecessary" (Oleg Nesterov)

 - "list private v2 & luo flb" adds some infrastructure improvements to
   the live update orchestrator (Pasha Tatashin)

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2026-02-12-10-48' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (107 commits)
  watchdog/hardlockup: simplify perf event probe and remove per-cpu dependency
  procfs: fix missing RCU protection when reading real_parent in do_task_stat()
  watchdog/softlockup: fix sample ring index wrap in need_counting_irqs()
  kcsan, compiler_types: avoid duplicate type issues in BPF Type Format
  kho: fix doc for kho_restore_pages()
  tests/liveupdate: add in-kernel liveupdate test
  liveupdate: luo_flb: introduce File-Lifecycle-Bound global state
  liveupdate: luo_file: Use private list
  list: add kunit test for private list primitives
  list: add primitives for private list manipulations
  delayacct: fix uapi timespec64 definition
  panic: add panic_force_cpu= parameter to redirect panic to a specific CPU
  netclassid: use thread_group_leader(p) in update_classid_task()
  RDMA/umem: don't abuse current->group_leader
  drm/pan*: don't abuse current->group_leader
  drm/amd: kill the outdated "Only the pthreads threading model is supported" checks
  drm/amdgpu: don't abuse current->group_leader
  android/binder: use same_thread_group(proc->tsk, current) in binder_mmap()
  android/binder: don't abuse current->group_leader
  kho: skip memoryless NUMA nodes when reserving scratch areas
  ...
checkpatch: add an invalid patch separator test 2026-02-01T00:16:03+00:00 Joe Perches joe@perches.com 2026-01-16T17:42:52+00:00 931d5c36c7369b65adb9e3d197a8d3a8a913db8c Some versions of tools that apply patches incorrectly allow lines that start with 3 dashes and have additional content on the same line. Checkpatch will now emit an ERROR on these lines and optionally convert those lines from dashes to equals with --fix. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6ec1ed08328340db42655287afd5fa4067316b11.camel@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Suggested-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com> Cc: Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@gmail.com> Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> Cc: Namhyung kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Stehen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> 
Some versions of tools that apply patches incorrectly allow lines that
start with 3 dashes and have additional content on the same line.

Checkpatch will now emit an ERROR on these lines and optionally convert
those lines from dashes to equals with --fix.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/6ec1ed08328340db42655287afd5fa4067316b11.camel@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: Kuan-Wei Chiu <visitorckw@gmail.com>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Cc: Namhyung kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Stehen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
docs: Update documentation to avoid mentioning of kernel.h 2025-12-22T21:59:18+00:00 Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com 2025-11-26T21:46:07+00:00 197bbebd25810c5218e3347d61641be8e49c5404 For several years, and still ongoing, the kernel.h is being split to smaller and narrow headers to avoid "including everything" approach which is bad in many ways. Since that, documentation missed a few required updates to align with that work. Do it here. Note, language translations are left untouched and if anybody willing to help, please provide path(es) based on the updated English variant. Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20251126214709.2322314-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> 
For several years, and still ongoing, the kernel.h is being split
to smaller and narrow headers to avoid "including everything" approach
which is bad in many ways. Since that, documentation missed a few
required updates to align with that work. Do it here.

Note, language translations are left untouched and if anybody willing
to help, please provide path(es) based on the updated English variant.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20251126214709.2322314-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-11-11-47' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm 2025-12-13T08:55:12+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2025-12-13T08:55:12+00:00 9d9c1cfec01cdbf24bd9322ed555713a20422115 Pull misc updates from Andrew Morton: "There are no significant series in this small merge. Please see the individual changelogs for details" [ Editor's note: it's mainly ocfs2 and a couple of random fixes ] * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-11-11-47' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: mm: memfd_luo: add CONFIG_SHMEM dependency mm: shmem: avoid build warning for CONFIG_SHMEM=n ocfs2: fix memory leak in ocfs2_merge_rec_left() ocfs2: invalidate inode if i_mode is zero after block read ocfs2: avoid -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warning ocfs2: convert remaining read-only checks to ocfs2_emergency_state ocfs2: add ocfs2_emergency_state helper and apply to setattr checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check args: fix documentation to reflect the correct numbers ocfs2: fix kernel BUG in ocfs2_find_victim_chain liveupdate: luo_core: fix redundant bound check in luo_ioctl() ocfs2: validate inline xattr size and entry count in ocfs2_xattr_ibody_list fs/fat: remove unnecessary wrapper fat_max_cache() ocfs2: replace deprecated strcpy with strscpy ocfs2: check tl_used after reading it from trancate log inode liveupdate: luo_file: don't use invalid list iterator 
Pull misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "There are no significant series in this small merge. Please see the
  individual changelogs for details"

[ Editor's note: it's mainly ocfs2 and a couple of random fixes ]

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-11-11-47' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm:
  mm: memfd_luo: add CONFIG_SHMEM dependency
  mm: shmem: avoid build warning for CONFIG_SHMEM=n
  ocfs2: fix memory leak in ocfs2_merge_rec_left()
  ocfs2: invalidate inode if i_mode is zero after block read
  ocfs2: avoid -Wflex-array-member-not-at-end warning
  ocfs2: convert remaining read-only checks to ocfs2_emergency_state
  ocfs2: add ocfs2_emergency_state helper and apply to setattr
  checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check
  args: fix documentation to reflect the correct numbers
  ocfs2: fix kernel BUG in ocfs2_find_victim_chain
  liveupdate: luo_core: fix redundant bound check in luo_ioctl()
  ocfs2: validate inline xattr size and entry count in ocfs2_xattr_ibody_list
  fs/fat: remove unnecessary wrapper fat_max_cache()
  ocfs2: replace deprecated strcpy with strscpy
  ocfs2: check tl_used after reading it from trancate log inode
  liveupdate: luo_file: don't use invalid list iterator
checkpatch: add uninitialized pointer with __free attribute check 2025-12-11T00:07:42+00:00 Ally Heev allyheev@gmail.com 2025-12-03T15:28:49+00:00 01da5216c572f6f8fca4e272451aad6c273b0d57 Uinitialized pointers with __free attribute can cause undefined behavior as the memory randomly assigned to the pointer is freed automatically when the pointer goes out of scope. add check in checkpatch to detect such issues. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251203-aheev-checkpatch-uninitialized-free-v7-1-841e3b31d8f3@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Ally Heev <allyheev@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/8a4c0b43-cf63-400d-b33d-d9c447b7e0b9@suswa.mountain/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/58fd478f408a34b578ee8d949c5c4b4da4d4f41d.camel@HansenPartnership.com/ Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org> Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Cc: David Hunter <david.hunter.linux@gmail.com> Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: James Bottomley <james.bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> Cc: Menon, Nishanth <nm@ti.com> Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org> Cc: Viresh Kumar <vireshk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> 
Uinitialized pointers with __free attribute can cause undefined behavior
as the memory randomly assigned to the pointer is freed automatically when
the pointer goes out of scope.  add check in checkpatch to detect such
issues.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251203-aheev-checkpatch-uninitialized-free-v7-1-841e3b31d8f3@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ally Heev <allyheev@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/8a4c0b43-cf63-400d-b33d-d9c447b7e0b9@suswa.mountain/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/58fd478f408a34b578ee8d949c5c4b4da4d4f41d.camel@HansenPartnership.com/
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: David Hunter <david.hunter.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: James Bottomley <james.bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Cc: Menon, Nishanth <nm@ti.com>
Cc: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <vireshk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-06-11-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm 2025-12-06T22:01:20+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2025-12-06T22:01:20+00:00 509d3f45847627f4c5cdce004c3ec79262b5239c Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton: - "panic: sys_info: Refactor and fix a potential issue" (Andy Shevchenko) fixes a build issue and does some cleanup in ib/sys_info.c - "Implement mul_u64_u64_div_u64_roundup()" (David Laight) enhances the 64-bit math code on behalf of a PWM driver and beefs up the test module for these library functions - "scripts/gdb/symbols: make BPF debug info available to GDB" (Ilya Leoshkevich) makes BPF symbol names, sizes, and line numbers available to the GDB debugger - "Enable hung_task and lockup cases to dump system info on demand" (Feng Tang) adds a sysctl which can be used to cause additional info dumping when the hung-task and lockup detectors fire - "lib/base64: add generic encoder/decoder, migrate users" (Kuan-Wei Chiu) adds a general base64 encoder/decoder to lib/ and migrates several users away from their private implementations - "rbree: inline rb_first() and rb_last()" (Eric Dumazet) makes TCP a little faster - "liveupdate: Rework KHO for in-kernel users" (Pasha Tatashin) reworks the KEXEC Handover interfaces in preparation for Live Update Orchestrator (LUO), and possibly for other future clients - "kho: simplify state machine and enable dynamic updates" (Pasha Tatashin) increases the flexibility of KEXEC Handover. Also preparation for LUO - "Live Update Orchestrator" (Pasha Tatashin) is a major new feature targeted at cloud environments. Quoting the cover letter: This series introduces the Live Update Orchestrator, a kernel subsystem designed to facilitate live kernel updates using a kexec-based reboot. This capability is critical for cloud environments, allowing hypervisors to be updated with minimal downtime for running virtual machines. LUO achieves this by preserving the state of selected resources, such as memory, devices and their dependencies, across the kernel transition. As a key feature, this series includes support for preserving memfd file descriptors, which allows critical in-memory data, such as guest RAM or any other large memory region, to be maintained in RAM across the kexec reboot. Mike Rappaport merits a mention here, for his extensive review and testing work. - "kexec: reorganize kexec and kdump sysfs" (Sourabh Jain) moves the kexec and kdump sysfs entries from /sys/kernel/ to /sys/kernel/kexec/ and adds back-compatibility symlinks which can hopefully be removed one day - "kho: fixes for vmalloc restoration" (Mike Rapoport) fixes a BUG which was being hit during KHO restoration of vmalloc() regions * tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-06-11-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (139 commits) calibrate: update header inclusion Reinstate "resource: avoid unnecessary lookups in find_next_iomem_res()" vmcoreinfo: track and log recoverable hardware errors kho: fix restoring of contiguous ranges of order-0 pages kho: kho_restore_vmalloc: fix initialization of pages array MAINTAINERS: TPM DEVICE DRIVER: update the W-tag init: replace simple_strtoul with kstrtoul to improve lpj_setup KHO: fix boot failure due to kmemleak access to non-PRESENT pages Documentation/ABI: new kexec and kdump sysfs interface Documentation/ABI: mark old kexec sysfs deprecated kexec: move sysfs entries to /sys/kernel/kexec test_kho: always print restore status kho: free chunks using free_page() instead of kfree() selftests/liveupdate: add kexec test for multiple and empty sessions selftests/liveupdate: add simple kexec-based selftest for LUO selftests/liveupdate: add userspace API selftests docs: add documentation for memfd preservation via LUO mm: memfd_luo: allow preserving memfd liveupdate: luo_file: add private argument to store runtime state mm: shmem: export some functions to internal.h ... 
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - "panic: sys_info: Refactor and fix a potential issue" (Andy Shevchenko)
   fixes a build issue and does some cleanup in ib/sys_info.c

 - "Implement mul_u64_u64_div_u64_roundup()" (David Laight)
   enhances the 64-bit math code on behalf of a PWM driver and beefs up
   the test module for these library functions

 - "scripts/gdb/symbols: make BPF debug info available to GDB" (Ilya Leoshkevich)
   makes BPF symbol names, sizes, and line numbers available to the GDB
   debugger

 - "Enable hung_task and lockup cases to dump system info on demand" (Feng Tang)
   adds a sysctl which can be used to cause additional info dumping when
   the hung-task and lockup detectors fire

 - "lib/base64: add generic encoder/decoder, migrate users" (Kuan-Wei Chiu)
   adds a general base64 encoder/decoder to lib/ and migrates several
   users away from their private implementations

 - "rbree: inline rb_first() and rb_last()" (Eric Dumazet)
   makes TCP a little faster

 - "liveupdate: Rework KHO for in-kernel users" (Pasha Tatashin)
   reworks the KEXEC Handover interfaces in preparation for Live Update
   Orchestrator (LUO), and possibly for other future clients

 - "kho: simplify state machine and enable dynamic updates" (Pasha Tatashin)
   increases the flexibility of KEXEC Handover. Also preparation for LUO

 - "Live Update Orchestrator" (Pasha Tatashin)
   is a major new feature targeted at cloud environments. Quoting the
   cover letter:

      This series introduces the Live Update Orchestrator, a kernel
      subsystem designed to facilitate live kernel updates using a
      kexec-based reboot. This capability is critical for cloud
      environments, allowing hypervisors to be updated with minimal
      downtime for running virtual machines. LUO achieves this by
      preserving the state of selected resources, such as memory,
      devices and their dependencies, across the kernel transition.

      As a key feature, this series includes support for preserving
      memfd file descriptors, which allows critical in-memory data, such
      as guest RAM or any other large memory region, to be maintained in
      RAM across the kexec reboot.

   Mike Rappaport merits a mention here, for his extensive review and
   testing work.

 - "kexec: reorganize kexec and kdump sysfs" (Sourabh Jain)
   moves the kexec and kdump sysfs entries from /sys/kernel/ to
   /sys/kernel/kexec/ and adds back-compatibility symlinks which can
   hopefully be removed one day

 - "kho: fixes for vmalloc restoration" (Mike Rapoport)
   fixes a BUG which was being hit during KHO restoration of vmalloc()
   regions

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-12-06-11-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (139 commits)
  calibrate: update header inclusion
  Reinstate "resource: avoid unnecessary lookups in find_next_iomem_res()"
  vmcoreinfo: track and log recoverable hardware errors
  kho: fix restoring of contiguous ranges of order-0 pages
  kho: kho_restore_vmalloc: fix initialization of pages array
  MAINTAINERS: TPM DEVICE DRIVER: update the W-tag
  init: replace simple_strtoul with kstrtoul to improve lpj_setup
  KHO: fix boot failure due to kmemleak access to non-PRESENT pages
  Documentation/ABI: new kexec and kdump sysfs interface
  Documentation/ABI: mark old kexec sysfs deprecated
  kexec: move sysfs entries to /sys/kernel/kexec
  test_kho: always print restore status
  kho: free chunks using free_page() instead of kfree()
  selftests/liveupdate: add kexec test for multiple and empty sessions
  selftests/liveupdate: add simple kexec-based selftest for LUO
  selftests/liveupdate: add userspace API selftests
  docs: add documentation for memfd preservation via LUO
  mm: memfd_luo: allow preserving memfd
  liveupdate: luo_file: add private argument to store runtime state
  mm: shmem: export some functions to internal.h
  ...
checkpatch: document new check PLACEHOLDER_USE 2025-11-12T00:48:29+00:00 Onur Özkan work@onurozkan.dev 2025-09-17T17:37:25+00:00 55b453ed53d28da0b8d2316741e11eb22ceb39d6 Adds documentation for the new check PLACEHOLDER_USE in checkpatch. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250917173725.22547-3-work@onurozkan.dev Signed-off-by: Onur Özkan <work@onurozkan.dev> Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> 
Adds documentation for the new check PLACEHOLDER_USE in checkpatch.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250917173725.22547-3-work@onurozkan.dev
Signed-off-by: Onur Özkan <work@onurozkan.dev>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
docs: checkpatch: Drop networking comment style 2025-10-21T20:36:33+00:00 Brian Norris briannorris@chromium.org 2025-10-17T20:37:12+00:00 0aa760051f4eb3d3bcd812125557bd09629a71e8 Networking no longer has their own comment style, and checkpatch no longer checks for this. Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20251017203719.1554224-2-briannorris@chromium.org> 
Networking no longer has their own comment style, and checkpatch no
longer checks for this.

Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20251017203719.1554224-2-briannorris@chromium.org>
docs: checkpatch: Align block comment style 2025-10-21T20:36:33+00:00 Brian Norris briannorris@chromium.org 2025-10-17T20:37:11+00:00 7159cf9fad12e827883104715675856aab20b00d Ironically, the block style comments in the checkpatch documentation are not aligned properly. Correct that. Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Message-ID: <20251017203719.1554224-1-briannorris@chromium.org> 
Ironically, the block style comments in the checkpatch documentation are
not aligned properly. Correct that.

Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Message-ID: <20251017203719.1554224-1-briannorris@chromium.org>
checkpatch: check for comment explaining rgmii(|-rxid|-txid) PHY modes 2025-06-26T12:49:10+00:00 Matthias Schiffer matthias.schiffer@ew.tq-group.com 2025-06-24T10:53:34+00:00 e02adac7c84bf2883ce5d5a828a03871c0c1d4f9 Historically, the RGMII PHY modes specified in Device Trees have been used inconsistently, often referring to the usage of delays on the PHY side rather than describing the board; many drivers still implement this incorrectly. Require a comment in Devices Trees using these modes (usually mentioning that the delay is realized on the PCB), so we can avoid adding more incorrect uses (or will at least notice which drivers still need to be fixed). Suggested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <matthias.schiffer@ew.tq-group.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/bc112b8aa510cf9df9ab33178d122f234d0aebf7.1750756583.git.matthias.schiffer@ew.tq-group.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> 
Historically, the RGMII PHY modes specified in Device Trees have been
used inconsistently, often referring to the usage of delays on the PHY
side rather than describing the board; many drivers still implement this
incorrectly.

Require a comment in Devices Trees using these modes (usually mentioning
that the delay is realized on the PCB), so we can avoid adding more
incorrect uses (or will at least notice which drivers still need to be
fixed).

Suggested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: Matthias Schiffer <matthias.schiffer@ew.tq-group.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/bc112b8aa510cf9df9ab33178d122f234d0aebf7.1750756583.git.matthias.schiffer@ew.tq-group.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>