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Message-ID: <CANiq72mP9NbMXZrDcKMhWsC_rUnbjBYRLC-BpqA5st44FRSpUw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 15:37:18 +0200
From: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>
To: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@...il.com>
Subject: Re: checkpatch.pl should suggest __section
On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 12:21 AM Nick Desaulniers
<ndesaulniers@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> 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?
+1 There are a few other attributes that should be renamed, too. It
has been on my TODO list for a while, but I decided to go first to add
support for the missing ones that we do not have (e.g. __nonnull), so
that at some point we could achieve a __attribute__-clean kernel.
But in the mean time, adding this to checkpatch.pl (and other
attributes if not there yet) is a great idea!
Cheers,
Miguel
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