linux-kernel - checkpatch.pl should suggest _

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Date:   Fri, 9 Aug 2019 15:21:31 -0700
From:   Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>,
        Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
Subject: checkpatch.pl should suggest __section

Hi Joe,
While debugging:
https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/619
we found a bunch of places where __section is not used but could be,
and uses a string literal when it probably should not be.

Just a thought that maybe checkpatch.pl could warn if
`__attribute__((section` appeared in the added diff, and suggest
__section? Then further warn to not use `""` for the section name?
-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers