From 88982fea52d0115d44b77619afef576f24cdb844 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Perches Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:02:00 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: warn when declaring "struct spinlock foo;" spinlock_t should always be used. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Acked-by: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index e0a674f471ee..f27b0b53e3ea 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3336,6 +3336,12 @@ sub process { "Avoid line continuations in quoted strings\n" . $herecurr); } +# check for struct spinlock declarations + if ($line =~ /^.\s*\bstruct\s+spinlock\s+\w+\s*;/) { + WARN("USE_SPINLOCK_T", + "struct spinlock should be spinlock_t\n" . $herecurr); + } + # Check for misused memsets if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 && defined $stat &&