linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5] checkpatch: extend attributes check to handle more patterns

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Message-ID: <6c1c62cd8ac119a6d8a84f262f11eb509ba0e7cc.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Sun, 25 Oct 2020 11:19:14 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] checkpatch: extend attributes check to handle more
 patterns

On Sun, 2020-10-25 at 23:40 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 11:29 PM Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
[]
> > Using $rawline would also change comments and that seems wrong.
> > Any reason to use $rawline instead of $line?
> Yes I used $line initially but changed it because quoted
> strings were being replaced.
> 
> Like:
> __attribute__((__section__("_ftrace_events")))

Right thanks, that's a very sensible tradeoff to reduce code complexity.