Instead of an error, lower to a warning message, assuming the comment
gives some justification.
Discussed in:
'[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] dump-guest-memory.py: fix "You can't do that without a
process to debug"'
Suggested-by: Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lur...@redhat.com>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 34df753571..f5a523af10 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2476,7 +2476,12 @@ sub process {
# no volatiles please
my $asm_volatile =
qr{\b(__asm__|asm)\s+(__volatile__|volatile)\b};
if ($line =~ /\bvolatile\b/ && $line !~ /$asm_volatile/) {
- ERROR("Use of volatile is usually wrong: see
Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt\n" . $herecurr);
+ my $msg = "Use of volatile is usually wrong: see
Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt\n" . $herecurr;
+ if (ctx_has_comment($first_line, $linenr)) {
+ WARN($msg);
+ } else {
+ ERROR($msg);
+ }
}
# warn about #if 0
--
2.15.1.355.g36791d7216
