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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>,
	Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Add test for #defines of ARCH_HAS_<foo>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 19:40:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1380163226.17366.54.camel@joe-AO722> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130925193250.7747b0e3.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Wed, 2013-09-25 at 19:32 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 19:00:54 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> 
> > +# Use of __ARCH_HAS_<FOO> or ARCH_HAVE_<BAR> is wrong.
> > +		if ($line =~ /\+\s*#\s*define\s+((?:__)?ARCH_(?:HAS|HAVE)\w*)\b/) {
> > +			ERROR("DEFINE_ARCH_HAS",
> > +			      "#define of '$1' is wrong - use Kconfig variables or standard guards instead\n" . $herecurr);
> > +		}
> > +
> 
> Perhaps we can provide people with a bit more help than that. 
> http://www.kernelhub.org/?msg=334759&p=2 would suit (gad, google
> updates fast!) or copy-n-paste into Documentation/wherever and refer to
> that?
> 

Maybe the fancy lkml.kernel.org link:

http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFycQ9XJvEOsiM3txHL5bjUc8CeKWJNR_H+MiicaddB42Q@mail.gmail.com

as that might be more long-term stable.

Will kernel.org ever store all the lkml emails so it
doesn't have to reference outside links?



      reply	other threads:[~2013-09-26  2:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-25 16:17 [RFC PATCH 0/7] softirq: Consolidation and stack overrun fix v2 Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-25 16:18 ` [PATCH 1/7] irq: Force hardirq exit's softirq processing on its own stack Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-25 16:18 ` [PATCH 2/7] irq: Consolidate do_softirq() arch overriden implementations Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-25 16:18 ` [PATCH 3/7] irq: Optimize call to softirq on hardirq exit Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-25 16:18 ` [PATCH 4/7] irq: Improve a bit softirq debugging Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-25 16:18 ` [PATCH 5/7] irq: Justify the various softirq stack choices Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-25 16:18 ` [PATCH 6/7] irq: Optimize softirq stack selection in irq exit Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-25 23:04   ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-26  7:12     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-25 16:18 ` [PATCH 7/7] x86: Tell about irq stack coverage Frederic Weisbecker
2013-09-25 23:08   ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-26  0:21     ` Andrew Morton
2013-09-26  0:40       ` Joe Perches
2013-09-26  1:26         ` Linus Torvalds
2013-09-26  2:00           ` [PATCH] checkpatch: Add test for #defines of ARCH_HAS_<foo> Joe Perches
2013-09-26  2:32             ` Andrew Morton
2013-09-26  2:40               ` Joe Perches [this message]

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