From: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Date: Wed, 9 May 2018 07:23:52 +0000 (+0900)
Subject: checkpatch: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() check
X-Git-Url: http://git.maquefel.me/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a6b04f0ed5e931d4be5bf466ad469e2ac25ad6da;p=linux.git

checkpatch: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() check

Now that VMLINUX_SYMBOL() is no-op and being removed, let's stop
checking VMLINUX_SYMBOL().

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
---

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index e16d6713f2368..ce582a820c92a 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -5121,16 +5121,6 @@ sub process {
 			}
 		}
 
-# make sure symbols are always wrapped with VMLINUX_SYMBOL() ...
-# all assignments may have only one of the following with an assignment:
-#	.
-#	ALIGN(...)
-#	VMLINUX_SYMBOL(...)
-		if ($realfile eq 'vmlinux.lds.h' && $line =~ /(?:(?:^|\s)$Ident\s*=|=\s*$Ident(?:\s|$))/) {
-			WARN("MISSING_VMLINUX_SYMBOL",
-			     "vmlinux.lds.h needs VMLINUX_SYMBOL() around C-visible symbols\n" . $herecurr);
-		}
-
 # check for redundant bracing round if etc
 		if ($line =~ /(^.*)\bif\b/ && $1 !~ /else\s*$/) {
 			my ($level, $endln, @chunks) =