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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-06-06 11:00:15 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-06-06 11:00:15 -0700
commit8715ee75fe6fa3aed367f28aa7a3655e6a8e4688 (patch)
tree192c25a109a73ca67d4483d89ee576660bb5f29c /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parent126f7051b4daa3716d9af2851dcb55316e4c2b25 (diff)
parent1f2f01b122d7c78a9e842a126ef168afb279552b (diff)
Merge tag 'kbuild-v4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada: - improve fixdep to coalesce consecutive slashes in dep-files - fix some issues of the maintainer string generation in deb-pkg script - remove unused CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX and clean-up several tools and linker scripts - clean-up modpost - allow to enable the dead code/data elimination for PowerPC in EXPERT mode - improve two coccinelle scripts for better performance - pass endianness and machine size flags to sparse for all architecture - misc fixes * tag 'kbuild-v4.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (25 commits) kbuild: add machine size to CHECKFLAGS kbuild: add endianness flag to CHEKCFLAGS kbuild: $(CHECK) doesnt need NOSTDINC_FLAGS twice scripts: Fixed printf format mismatch scripts/tags.sh: use `find` for $ALLSOURCE_ARCHS generation coccinelle: deref_null: improve performance coccinelle: mini_lock: improve performance powerpc: Allow LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION to be selected kbuild: Allow LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION to be selectable if enabled kbuild: LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION no -ffunction-sections/-fdata-sections for module build kbuild: Fix asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h for LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION modpost: constify *modname function argument where possible modpost: remove redundant is_vmlinux() test modpost: use strstarts() helper more widely modpost: pass struct elf_info pointer to get_modinfo() checkpatch: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() check vmlinux.lds.h: remove no-op macro VMLINUX_SYMBOL() kbuild: remove CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX export.h: remove code for prefixing symbols with underscore depmod.sh: remove symbol prefix support ...
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diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 2d42eb9cd1a5..e6033d3c48d3 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -5121,16 +5121,6 @@ sub process {
}
}
-# make sure symbols are always wrapped with VMLINUX_SYMBOL() ...
-# all assignments may have only one of the following with an assignment:
-# .
-# ALIGN(...)
-# VMLINUX_SYMBOL(...)
- if ($realfile eq 'vmlinux.lds.h' && $line =~ /(?:(?:^|\s)$Ident\s*=|=\s*$Ident(?:\s|$))/) {
- WARN("MISSING_VMLINUX_SYMBOL",
- "vmlinux.lds.h needs VMLINUX_SYMBOL() around C-visible symbols\n" . $herecurr);
- }
-
# check for redundant bracing round if etc
if ($line =~ /(^.*)\bif\b/ && $1 !~ /else\s*$/) {
my ($level, $endln, @chunks) =