linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4] checkpatch: extend attributes check to handle more patterns

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Message-ID: <80280a389782858c72fcd56a54da1a1f4153216c.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Sun, 25 Oct 2020 01:38:14 -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 v4] checkpatch: extend attributes check to handle more
 patterns

On Sun, 2020-10-25 at 14:02 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> And also do you think there should be a separate check
> for __alias__(#symbol)? I think it expects a string and that should
> be trimmed in the fix.

For now, I think you should avoid both alias and section.

There are patches to convert both of these macros to remove
the stringify.