On Tue, 2012-11-20 at 14:29 +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > This all looks sensible, though we still have three blocks doing the > same thing. How about we standardise this check into a single check, > generating the capacity from the matched name. [] > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl [] > + if ($line =~ > /\b(kfree|usb_free_urb|debugfs_remove(?:_recursive)?)$expr/) { > + my $func = $1; > + my $func_capacity = "NEEDLESS_$1"; > + > + $func_capacity =~ s/(.$)/\U$1\E/; > + > + WARN($func_capacity, > + "$func(NULL) is safe this check is > probably not required\n" . $hereprev);
Perhaps just WARN("NEEDLESS_IF", ... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/