Functions like this one are evil:

void foo()
{
	...
}

Because these functions allow variadic arguments without
checking the arguments at all.

Original patch by Richard Weinberger.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

ether_addr_copy was added for kernel version 3.14.  It's slightly
smaller/faster for some arches.  Encourage its use.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This adds a simple check that any compatible strings in DeviceTree dts
files are present in Documentation/devicetree/bindings.  Vendor prefixes
are also checked for existing in vendor-prefixes.txt These should be
temporary checks until we have more sophisticated binding schema
checking.
Signed-off-by: NRob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This change restricts the check for the for the FSF address in the GPL
copyright statement so that it only flags the address, not the
references to the gnu.org/licenses URL which appears to be used in
numerous drivers.  The idea is to still allow some reference to an
external copy of the GPL in the event that files are copied out of the
kernel tree without the COPYING file.

So for example this statement will still return an error:
  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

However, this statement will not return an error after this patch:
  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
Signed-off-by: NAlexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Kernel style uses function pointers in this form:
	"type (*funcptr)(args...)"

Emit warnings when this function pointer form isn't used.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Derek Perrin <d.roc16@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The FSF address check is a bit too verbose looking for the GPL text.
Quiet it a bit by requiring --strict for the GPL bit.

Also make the address tests match a few uses of abbreviations for street
names and make it case insensitive.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

If statements don't need multiple parentheses around tested comparisons
like "if ((foo == bar))".

An == comparison maybe a sign of an intended assignment, so emit a
slightly different message if so.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This test should remove all the spaces before a tab not just one space.

Substitute a tab for each 8 space block before a tab and remove less than
8 spaces before a tab.

This SPACE_BEFORE_TAB test is done after CODE_INDENT.

If there are spaces used at the beginning of a line that should be
converted to tabs, please make sure that the CODE_INDENT test and
conversion is done before this SPACE_BEFORE_TAB test and conversion.
Reported-by: NManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add the ability to fix and overwrite existing files/patches instead of
creating a new file "<filename>.EXPERIMENTAL-checkpatch-fixes".
Suggested-by: NManfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

switch case statements missing a break statement are an unfortunately
common error.

e.g.:
  commit 4a2c94c9 ("HID: kye: Add report fixup for Genius Manticore Keyboard")

case blocks should end in a break/return/goto/continue.

If a fall-through is used, it should have a comment showing that it is
intentional.  Ideally that comment should be something like:
"/* fall-through */"

Add a test to look for missing break statements.

This looks only at the context lines before an inserted case so it's
possible to have false positives when the context contains a close brace
and the break is before the brace and not part of the patch context.

Looking at recent patches, this is a pretty rare occurrence.  The normal
kernel style uses a break as the last line of the previous block.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perche.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

gfp.h and page_alloc.c already specify that __GFP_NOFAIL is deprecated and
no new users should be added.

Add a warning to checkpatch to catch this.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The "space before a non-naked semicolon" test has unwanted output when
used in "for ( ;; )" loops.

Make the test work only on end-of-line statement termination semicolons.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The current checkpatch test for split strings does not find several
cases that should be found.

For instance:

 		/* Else poor success; go back to mode in "active" table */
 		} else {
 			IWL_DEBUG_RATE(mvm,
-				       "LQ: GOING BACK TO THE OLD TABLE suc=%d cur-tpt=%d old-tpt=%d\n",
+				       "GOING BACK TO THE OLD TABLE: SR %d "
+				       "cur-tpt %d old-tpt %d\n",
 				       window->success_ratio,
 				       window->average_tpt,
 				      lq_sta->last_tpt);

does not currently emit a warning.

Improve the test to find these cases.

Add more exceptions to reduce false positives for assembly and octal/hex
string constants.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

get_maintainer currently uses "Signed-off-by" style lines to find
interested parties to send patches to when the MAINTAINERS file does not
have a specific section entry with a matching file pattern.

Add statistics for commit authors and lines added and deleted to the
information provided by --rolestats.

These statistics are also emitted whenever --rolestats and --git are
selected even when there is a specified maintainer.

This can have the effect of expanding the number of people that are shown
as possible "maintainers" of a particular file because "authors",
"added_lines", and "removed_lines" are also used as criterion for the
--max-maintainers option separate from the "commit_signers".

The first "--git-max-maintainers" values of each criterion
are emitted.  Any "ties" are not shown.

For example: (forcedeth does not have a named maintainer)

Old output:

$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> (commit_signer:8/10=80%)
Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> (commit_signer:2/10=20%)
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> (commit_signer:2/10=20%)
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> (commit_signer:1/10=10%)
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> (commit_signer:1/10=10%)
netdev@vger.kernel.org (open list:NETWORKING DRIVERS)
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)

New output:

$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/net/ethernet/nvidia/forcedeth.c
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> (commit_signer:8/10=80%)
Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> (commit_signer:2/10=20%,authored:2/10=20%,removed_lines:3/33=9%)
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> (commit_signer:2/10=20%,authored:2/10=20%,added_lines:12/95=13%,removed_lines:10/33=30%)
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> (commit_signer:1/10=10%,authored:1/10=10%,added_lines:35/95=37%)
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> (commit_signer:1/10=10%)
"Peter Hüwe" <PeterHuewe@gmx.de> (authored:1/10=10%,removed_lines:15/33=45%)
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> (authored:1/10=10%)
Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> (added_lines:40/95=42%)
Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu> (removed_lines:3/33=9%)
netdev@vger.kernel.org (open list:NETWORKING DRIVERS)
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (open list)
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

"make headers_check" warns about soundcard.h for (at least) five years
now:
    [...]/usr/include/linux/soundcard.h:1054: userspace cannot reference function or variable defined in the kernel

We're apparently stuck with providing OSSlib-3.8 compatibility, so let's
special case this declaration just to silence it.

Notes:

0) Support for OSSlib post 3.8 was already removed in commit 43a99076
   ("sound: Remove OSSlib stuff from linux/soundcard.h").  Five years have
   passed since that commit: do people still care about OSSlib-3.8?  If
   not, quite a bit of code could be remove from soundcard.h (and probably
   ultrasound.h).

2) By the way, what is actually meant by:
    It is no longer possible to actually link against OSSlib with this
    header, but we still provide these macros for programs using them.

Doesn't that mean compatibility to OSSlib isn't even useful?

3) Anyhow, a previous discussion soundcard.h, which led to that commit,
   starts at https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/20/349 .

4) And, yes, I sneaked in a whitespace fix.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Acked-by: NArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Sort the exception table at build-time rather than during boot.

Microblaze is the same case as AARCH64 that's why EM_MICROBLAZE
conditional check was added to allow cross-compilation on machines which
are not running the latest libc-dev.

Inspired by AARCH64 commit adace895 ("arm64: extable: sort the
exception table at build time").
Signed-off-by: NMichal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
Acked-by: NDavid Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This tool is designed to assist kernel and OS developers in optimizing
their linux stack's suspend/resume time. Using a kernel image built with a
few extra options enabled, the tool will execute a suspend and will
capture dmesg and ftrace data until resume is complete. This data is
transformed into a device timeline and a callgraph to give a quick and
detailed view of which devices and callbacks are taking the most time in
suspend/resume. The output is a single html file which can be viewed in
firefox or chrome.

References: https://01.org/suspendresumeSigned-off-by: NTodd Brandt <todd.e.brandt@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

As commit a9468f30 "ARM: 7333/2: jump label: detect %c
support for ARM", this patch detects the same thing for ARM64
because some ARM64 GCC versions have the same issue.

Some versions of ARM64 GCC which do support asm goto, do not
support the %c specifier. Since we need the %c to support jump
labels on ARM64, detect that too in the asm goto detection script
to avoid build errors with these versions.
Acked-by: NWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: NJiang Liu <liuj97@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>

Currently localmodconfig will miss dependencies from the default option.
For example:

config FOO
	default y if BAR || ZOO

If FOO is needed for a module and is set to '=m', and so are BAR or ZOO,
localmodconfig will not see that BOO or ZOO are also needed for the foo
module, and will incorrectly disable them.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131218175137.162937350@goodmis.orgSigned-off-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Prefer use of the direct definition of struct pci_device_id instead of
indirection via macro DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE.

Update the PCI documentation to deprecate DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE.  Update
checkpatch adding --fix option.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NBjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Reviewed-by: NJingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>

Actually CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET isn't same with PAGE_OFFSET, so
it isn't easy to figue out PAGE_OFFSET defined in header
file from scripts.

Because CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET may not be defined in some ARCHs(
64bit ARCH), or defined as bogus value in !MMU case, so
this patch only applys the filter on ARM when CONFIG_PAGE_OFFSET
is defined as the original problem is only on ARM.

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Fixes: f6537f2fSinged-off-by: NMing Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

This matches the existing behavior in arch/tile/Makefile for defconfig.

Reported-by: fengguang.wu@intel.com
Acked-by: NSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: NTony Lu <zlu@tilera.com>
Signed-off-by: NChris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>

When scripts/kernel-doc cannot understand a function prototype,
it had been generating a fatal error and stopping immediately.
Make this a Warning instead of an Error and keep going.

Note that this can happen if the kernel-doc notation that is being
parsed is not actually a function prototype; maybe it's a struct or
something else, so I added "function" to the warning message to try
to make it clearer that scripts/kernel-doc is looking for a function
prototype here.
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: NMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: NRob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Avoids wasting cycles at boot specially on slower simulators
Signed-off-by: NVineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Francois Bedard <fbedard@synopsys.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: NDavid Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>

checkpatch is currently confused about some complex macros and references
undefined variables $stat and $cond.

Make sure these are defined before using them.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: NGerhard Sittig <gsi@denx.de>
Acked-by: NAndy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This reverts commits
f3462aa9 (Kbuild: Handle longer symbols in kallsyms.c) and
eea0e9cb (kbuild: Increase kallsyms max symbol length)
except for the added overflow check. The reason is a regression caused
by increasing the buffer:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=138387700415675.
Reported-by: NFengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NMichal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>

When using '!Ffile function' in a docbook template, and the function no
longer exists, you get a "no structured comments found" error from the
kernel-doc processing script.  It's useful to know which functions it was
looking for, so print them out in this case.  Also do the same for '!Pfile
doc-section'

The same error also happens when using '!Efile' when some exported
functions aren't documented (in the same file.) There's a very large
number of such functions though, so don't print the message in this case
-- right now it would give ~850 messages.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

When expert configuration option(CONFIG_EXPERT) is enabled, menuconfig
offers a choice of compression algorithm to compress initial ramfs image;
This choice is stored into CONFIG_RD_* variables.  But usr/Makefile uses
earlier INITRAMFS_COMPRESSION_* macros to build initial ramfs file.  Since
none of them is defined, resulting 'initramfs_data.cpio' file remains
un-compressed.

This patch updates the Makefile to use CONFIG_RD_* variables and adds
support for LZ4 compression algorithm.  Also updates the
'gen_initramfs_list.sh' script to check whether a selected compression
command is accessible or not.  And fall-back to default gzip(1)
compression when it is not.
Signed-off-by: NP J P <prasad@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Naked use sscanf can be troublesome because the pointed to variables may
not have been set.

Add a warning when the sscanf return value is not used.

For now, do not add __must_check to the sscanf prototype because that will
cause a couple of hundred new warnings when compiling a kernel.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Avoid prescribing kernel styled shortcuts for gcc extensions of
__attribute__((foo)) in the uapi include paths.

Fix $realfile filename when using -f/--file to not remove first level
directory as if the filename was used in a -P1 patch.  Only strip the
first level directory (typically a or b) for P1 patches.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: "Dixit, Ashutosh" <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Find a few more cases where parentheses are used around the value of a
return statement.

This now uses the "$balanced_parens" test and also makes the test depend
on perl v5.10 and higher.

This now finds return with parenthesis uses the old code did not find
like:

ERROR: return is not a function, parentheses are not required
#211: FILE: arch/m68k/include/asm/sun3xflop.h:211:
+		return ((error == 0) ? 0 : -1);
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Tested-by: NDavid Cohen <david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: NDavid Cohen <david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Kernel maintainers reject new instances of the GPL boilerplate paragraph
directing people to write to the FSF for a copy of the GPL, since the FSF
has moved in the past and may do so again.

Make this an error for new code, but just a --strict CHK in --file mode;
anyone interested in doing tree-wide cleanups of this form can enable this
test explicitly.
Signed-off-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Peter Zijlstra prefers that comments be required near uses of memory
barriers.

Change the message level for memory barrier uses from a --strict test only
to a normal WARN so it's always emitted.

This might produce false positives around insertions of memory barriers
when a comment is outside the patch context block.

And checkpatch is still stupid, it only looks for existence of any
comment, not at the comment content.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

People get this regularly wrong and it breaks the LTO builds, as it causes
a section attribute conflict.

Add --fix capability too.

Based on a patch from Andi Kleen.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add a test for these #defines

Additionally, moved string_find_replace sub as it screws up subsequent
formatting when placed inside another sub.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Checkpatch doesn't currently find CamelCase definitions of structs, unions
or enums.

Add that ability.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

seq_vprintf, seq_printf and seq_puts are logging functions and should be
allowed to exceed the maximium line length.

Add maximum line length exceptions for these functions.

Also, suggesting seq_printf conversions to seq_puts should be tested for
arguments after the format.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Extend the CamelCase words found to include structure members.

In https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/3/318 Sarah Sharp (mostly) wrote:

"In general, if checkpatch.pl complains about a variable a patch
introduces that's CamelCase, you should pay attention to it.  Otherwise,
[] ignore it."

So, if checking a patch, scan the original patched file if it's available
and add any preexisting CamelCase types so reuses do not generate
CamelCase messages.

That also means Andrew's not so cruelly spurned anymore.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/2/22/426Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: NSarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com>
Suggested-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Spaces around trigraphs are specified by CodingStyle but checkpatch is
currently silent about them because there are many current instances
without them.

Make missing spaces around trigraphs a --strict message.
Signed-off-by: NJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reviewed-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

For some reason I managed to trick gcc into create CRC symbols that are
not absolute anymore, but weak.

Make modpost handle this case.
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>