From f3db6639fee577f6ed92c0a1fc881e748c47ec48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:28:57 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: add a checkpatch warning for new uses of
__initcall().
[apw@shadowen.org: generalise pattern and add tests]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
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>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 5420db6502fc..cf70f123f574 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2108,6 +2108,10 @@ sub process {
if ($line =~ /\bsimple_(strto.*?)\s*\(/) {
WARN("consider using strict_$1 in preference to simple_$1\n" . $herecurr);
}
+# check for __initcall(), use device_initcall() explicitly please
+ if ($line =~ /^.\s*__initcall\s*\(/) {
+ WARN("please use device_initcall() instead of __initcall()\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
# use of NR_CPUS is usually wrong
# ignore definitions of NR_CPUS and usage to define arrays as likely right
--
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