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authorAndy Whitcroft2009-02-27 14:03:05 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds2009-02-27 16:26:21 -0800
commitf4a8773676c21a68b0666fbe48af4fe1af89dfa9 (patch)
tree1ae344b48e791f3abf9310ec71bb15ddd72b2ae1 /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parentcbb766766f3f2f6d9326c561b1020590642c6e39 (diff)
checkpatch: make in_atomic ok in the core
We say that in_atomic() is ok in the core kernel, but then always report it regardless of where in the kernel it is. Keep quiet if it is used in kernel/*. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 45eb0ae98eba..c71a0fae84df 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2560,7 +2560,7 @@ sub process {
if ($line =~ /\bin_atomic\s*\(/) {
if ($realfile =~ m@^drivers/@) {
ERROR("do not use in_atomic in drivers\n" . $herecurr);
- } else {
+ } elsif ($realfile !~ m@^kernel/@) {
WARN("use of in_atomic() is incorrect outside core kernel code\n" . $herecurr);
}
}