linux-kernel - Re: [Patch 5/5] run drivers/misc/xp through scripts/checkpatch.pl

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Date:	Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:03:36 +0000
From:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
To:	Dean Nelson <dcn@....com>
Cc:	rdunlap@...otime.net, jschopp@...tin.ibm.com, jes@....com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tony.luck@...el.com,
	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch 5/5] run drivers/misc/xp through scripts/checkpatch.pl

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 03:05:17PM -0500, Dean Nelson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 02:25:29PM -0500, dcn@....com wrote:
> > 
> > Addressed issues raised by scripts/checkpatch.pl. Removed unnecessary curly
> > braces.  Eliminated uses of volatiles and use of kernel_thread() and
> > daemonize().
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@....com>
> > 
> 
> Forgot to mention that scripts/checkpatch.pl gave 15 false positives of
> the following type against drivers/misc/xp/xp_main.c.
> 
> > WARNING: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its function/variable
> > #48: FILE: misc/xp/xp_main.c:48:
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xp_remote_memcpy);
> 
> The fact is that the EXPORT_SYMBOL(xp_remote_memcpy) does immediately follow
> the function/variable as follows.
> 
> enum xp_retval (*xp_remote_memcpy) (void *dst, const void *src, size_t len);
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xp_remote_memcpy);

Gah, who ever came up with that syntax.  Yep, thats a falsie.  Should be
fixed in the latest version:

  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/apw/checkpatch/checkpatch.pl-next

Thanks for the report.

-apw
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