kernel/scripts/checkpatch.pl, branch linux-4.11.y

checkpatch: silence perl 5.26.0 unescaped left brace warnings

2017-07-21T05:00:11Z

commit 8d81ae05d0176da1c54aeaed697fa34be5c5575e upstream. As of perl 5, version 26, subversion 0 (v5.26.0) some new warnings have occurred when running checkpatch. Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl 5.30), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^(.\s*){ <-- HERE \s*/ at scripts/checkpatch.pl line 3544. Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl 5.30), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^(.\s*){ <-- HERE \s*/ at scripts/checkpatch.pl line 3885. Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl 5.30), passed through in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/^(\+.*(?:do|\))){ <-- HERE / at scripts/checkpatch.pl line 4374. It seems perfectly reasonable to do as the warning suggests and simply escape the left brace in these three locations. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170607060135.17384-1-cyrilbur@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur Acked-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

checkpatch: warn when formats use %Z and suggest %z

2017-02-28T02:43:48Z

vsnprintf extension %Z is non-standard C. Suggest the use of %z instead. Miscellanea: - Correct the misuse of type string PRINTF_0xDECIMAL type strings are supposed to be uppercase only. Fix this and add tr/[a-z]/[A-Z] to the type check in case I forget this again sometime in the future. - Improve the mechanism to find these defects so all 3 current checks are done on the format string [joe@perches.com: correct the misuse of type string PRINTF_0xDECIMAL, improve the mechanism to find these defects] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4e3ad74b0c9dc229b06018a2d79655308ddbbebd.1484014173.git.joe@perches.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170109235955.GA6787@avx2 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

checkpatch: remove false unbalanced braces warning

2017-02-25T01:46:57Z

Lines containing "} else {" should not be detected as unbalanced braces. But the second check can be reduced to ".+else\s*{" and it therefore never checked if the beginning of a line contains any other character (like the relevant "}"). This check would also return true for "} else {" and create warnings like CHECK: Unbalanced braces around else statement #391: FILE: ./net/batman-adv/tvlv.c:391: + } else { The check can be changed to check the whole line for the missing "}" to avoid this false positive. Fixes: 0d1532456c26 ("checkpatch: notice unbalanced else braces in a patch") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170220121644.12209-1-sven@narfation.org Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Acked-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

checkpatch: notice unbalanced else braces in a patch

2017-02-25T01:46:57Z

Patches that add or modify code like } else or else { where one branch appears to have a brace and the other branch does not have a brace should emit a --strict style message. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c6be32747fc725cbc235802991746700a0f54fdc.1486754390.git.joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

checkpatch: add another old address for the FSF

2017-02-25T01:46:57Z

We still have a lot of old addresses for the FSF in the kernel. willy@harry:~/kernel/idr$ git grep '675 Mass' |wc -l 1502 willy@harry:~/kernel/idr$ git grep '59 Temple' |wc -l 2825 willy@harry:~/kernel/idr$ git grep '51 Franklin' |wc -l 2020 Let's discourage adding the oldest one too. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170128173052.GA23532@bombadil.infradead.org Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox Acked-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

checkpatch: update $logFunctions

2017-02-25T01:46:57Z

Currently checkpatch.pl does not recognize printk_deferred* functions as log functions and complains about the line length of printk_deferred* functions. Add printk_deferred* to logFunctions to fix it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484537124-18083-1-git-send-email-miles.chen@mediatek.com Signed-off-by: Miles Chen Acked-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

checkpatch: warn on logging continuations

2017-02-25T01:46:57Z

pr_cont(...) and printk(KERN_CONT ...) uses should be discouraged as their output can be interleaved by multiple logging processes. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/7100ba00098694ec81471a299583ed068975fd05.1483465888.git.joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

checkpatch: warn on embedded function names

2017-02-25T01:46:57Z

Embedded function names are less appropriate to use when refactoring can cause function renaming. Prefer the use of "%s", __func__ to embedded function names. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ac9631fdbac5af3507c5bfe88ad9064f0ed764ec.1483510416.git.joe@perches.com Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

checkpatch: replace bitwise with __bitwise

2016-12-15T22:13:40Z

__bitwise__ is an implementation detail now. Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin

Merge tag 'docs-4.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2016-12-13T05:58:13Z

Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet: "These are the documentation changes for 4.10. It's another busy cycle for the docs tree, as the sphinx conversion continues. Highlights include: - Further work on PDF output, which remains a bit of a pain but should be more solid now. - Five more DocBook template files converted to Sphinx. Only 27 to go... Lots of plain-text files have also been converted and integrated. - Images in binary formats have been replaced with more source-friendly versions. - Various bits of organizational work, including the renaming of various files discussed at the kernel summit. - New documentation for the device_link mechanism. ... and, of course, lots of typo fixes and small updates" * tag 'docs-4.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (193 commits) dma-buf: Extract dma-buf.rst Update Documentation/00-INDEX docs: 00-INDEX: document directories/files with no docs docs: 00-INDEX: remove non-existing entries docs: 00-INDEX: add missing entries for documentation files/dirs docs: 00-INDEX: consolidate process/ and admin-guide/ description scripts: add a script to check if Documentation/00-INDEX is sane Docs: change sh -> awk in REPORTING-BUGS Documentation/core-api/device_link: Add initial documentation core-api: remove an unexpected unident ppc/idle: Add documentation for powersave=off Doc: Correct typo, "Introdution" => "Introduction" Documentation/atomic_ops.txt: convert to ReST markup Documentation/local_ops.txt: convert to ReST markup Documentation/assoc_array.txt: convert to ReST markup docs-rst: parse-headers.pl: cleanup the documentation docs-rst: fix media cleandocs target docs-rst: media/Makefile: reorganize the rules docs-rst: media: build SVG from graphviz files docs-rst: replace bayer.png by a SVG image ...

kernel/scripts/checkpatch.pl, branch linux-4.11.y

checkpatch: silence perl 5.26.0 unescaped left brace warnings

checkpatch: warn when formats use %Z and suggest %z

checkpatch: remove false unbalanced braces warning

checkpatch: notice unbalanced else braces in a patch

checkpatch: add another old address for the FSF

checkpatch: update $logFunctions

checkpatch: warn on logging continuations

checkpatch: warn on embedded function names

checkpatch: replace __bitwise__ with __bitwise

Merge tag 'docs-4.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

checkpatch: replace bitwise with __bitwise