Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:34:25 +0200 | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Mark literal strings in __init / __exit code | From | Mathias Krause <> |
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On 25 June 2014 09:48, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote: > On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 09:35 +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: >> Speaking of dangling pointers: A similar disaster would happen if some >> code containing pi_* calls gets copy-pasted to some non-__init >> function. > > This is my biggest issue with adding these new, > somewhat obscure macros.
modpost will handle these cases.
>> Could checkpatch learn to warn about calling these functions >> from the wrong context? > > It's not possible. checkpatch works on patch chunks. > Any patch chunk may not contain the function attributes.
checkpatch.pl -f might detect them, though :/
Thanks, Mathias
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