Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Mark literal strings in __init / __exit code | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Wed, 25 Jun 2014 04:22:40 -0700 |
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On Wed, 2014-06-25 at 10:34 +0200, Mathias Krause wrote: > 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.
If so, then I don't see a problem.
> >> 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 :/
Something like your awk script would be easier.
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