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| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index a04df2657d49..d8793bdbc492 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3599,6 +3599,13 @@ sub process { } } +# check for .L prefix local symbols in .S files + if ($realfile =~ /\.S$/ && + $line =~ /^\+\s*(?:[A-Z]+_)?SYM_[A-Z]+_(?:START|END)(?:_[A-Z_]+)?\s*\(\s*\.L/) { + WARN("AVOID_L_PREFIX", + "Avoid using '.L' prefixed local symbol names for denoting a range of code via 'SYM_*_START/END' annotations; see Documentation/asm-annotations.rst\n" . $herecurr); + } + # check we are in a valid source file C or perl if not then ignore this hunk next if ($realfile !~ /\.(h|c|pl|dtsi|dts)$/); |