linux-kernel - Re: Checkpatch still worries about include/asm/ ?

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Date:   Thu, 18 Mar 2021 22:48:36 +0530
From:   Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com>
To:     Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Cc:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        linux-kernel-mentees@...ts.linuxfoundation.org,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Checkpatch still worries about include/asm/ ?

On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 10:33 PM Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 5:47 PM Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@...il.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > include/asm/ got removed a long time back (probably v1.1.45).
> > Checkpatch still worries about that:
> >
> > if ($realfile =~ m@...clude/asm/@) {
> > ERROR("MODIFIED_INCLUDE_ASM",
> > "do not modify files in include/asm, change architecture specific
> > files in include/asm-<architecture>\n" . "$here$rawline\n");
> > }
> >
> > Can we remove this check?
> >
>
> Wow, v1.1.45... that must have been taking quite some digging in the
> ancient dirt to find that out.
>
I was actually helped by an user who send a patch in 2016 to remove it:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1482260987-21457-1-git-send-email-pebolle@tiscali.nl/raw

Don't know why it wasnt removed back then.
But it's safe to say this check hasn't been used for decades :)

> I agree, let us remove that rule.

Sure will send the patch.

> Thanks for the documentation effort on checkpatch.pl and cleaning up
> obsolete rules while documenting.
>
It's my pleasure!

Thanks & Regards,
Dwaipayan.