From: William Roberts <[email protected]> Sample output: WARNING: %pk is close to %pK, did you mean %pK?. \#20: FILE: drivers/char/applicom.c:230: + printk(KERN_INFO "Could not allocate IRQ %d for PCI Applicom device. %pk\n", dev->irq, pci_get_class);
Signed-off-by: William Roberts <[email protected]> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 982c52c..f20f5c5 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -6096,6 +6096,12 @@ sub process { "recursive locking is bad, do not use this ever.\n" . $herecurr); } +# check for bad %pK usage + if ($rawline =~ /\%pk/) { + WARN("FORMAT SPECIFIER", + "%pk is close to %pK, did you mean %pK?.\n" . $herecurr); + } + # check for lockdep_set_novalidate_class if ($line =~ /^.\s*lockdep_set_novalidate_class\s*\(/ || $line =~ /__lockdep_no_validate__\s*\)/ ) { -- 2.7.4
