Commit 39b7e287 authored by Joe Perches's avatar Joe Perches Committed by Linus Torvalds
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checkpatch: add a "prefer __aligned" check 

Prefer the use of __aligned(size) over __attribute__((__aligned___(size)))

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110609094526.1571774c.akpm@linux-foundation.org



Suggested-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 20112475

scripts/checkpatch.pl

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@@ -2891,6 +2891,11 @@ sub process { 
			WARN("__packed is preferred over __attribute__((packed))\n" . $herecurr);

		}



# Check for __attribute__ aligned, prefer __aligned

		if ($line =~ /\b__attribute__\s*\(\s*\(.*aligned/) {

			WARN("__aligned(size) is preferred over __attribute__((aligned(size)))\n" . $herecurr);

		}



# check for sizeof(&)

		if ($line =~ /\bsizeof\s*\(\s*\&/) {

			WARN("sizeof(& should be avoided\n" . $herecurr);

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