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

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Date:   Sun, 25 Oct 2020 01:48:05 -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 14:12 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> Suppose we have non handled attributes in one such
> multi attribute macro. (not present in our hash)
> 
> Like __attribute__((__packed, __something_not_handled))
> 
> For this case, do I skip the warning totally? Or something else?

Emit the warning, skip the fix unless all converted.