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| author | Tom Rini <trini@ti.com> | 2014-02-25 10:27:00 -0500 |
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| committer | Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net> | 2014-02-26 21:19:29 +0100 |
| commit | f503cc49a570b1e28a93b75bc912aedc93ba2cd0 (patch) | |
| tree | 1cf85e8402c29913886d9dba4377ed2208bb6392 /scripts | |
| parent | b60eff31f3bd71a6f14b6c6efc8ad5fb3705de6d (diff) | |
checkpatch.pl: Add warning for new __packed additions
While there are valid reasons to use __packed, often the answer is that
you should be doing something else here instead.
Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 88c5bc77354..df0820c1a11 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3331,6 +3331,11 @@ sub process { WARN("PREFER_PACKED", "__packed is preferred over __attribute__((packed))\n" . $herecurr); } +# Check for new packed members, warn to use care + if ($line =~ /\b(__attribute__\s*\(\s*\(.*\bpacked|__packed)\b/) { + WARN("NEW_PACKED", + "Adding new packed members is to be done with care\n" . $herecurr); + } # Check for __attribute__ aligned, prefer __aligned if ($line =~ /\b__attribute__\s*\(\s*\(.*aligned/) { |