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authorBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2011-06-30 15:23:59 +1000
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>2011-06-30 15:23:59 +1000
commit6da49a292534d31ca391928ea97f8225774dc1e0 (patch)
tree060c5f5f40dceb10d4528763bc7fc1ccc88210d9 /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parentpowerpc/pseries: Move hvsi support into a library (diff)
parentMerge branch 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6 (diff)
Merge remote branch 'origin/master' into next
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diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 8657f99bfb2b..b0aa2c680593 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1943,6 +1943,11 @@ sub process {
WARN("LINUX_VERSION_CODE should be avoided, code should be for the version to which it is merged\n" . $herecurr);
}
+# check for uses of printk_ratelimit
+ if ($line =~ /\bprintk_ratelimit\s*\(/) {
+ WARN("Prefer printk_ratelimited or pr_<level>_ratelimited to printk_ratelimit\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
+
# printk should use KERN_* levels. Note that follow on printk's on the
# same line do not need a level, so we use the current block context
# to try and find and validate the current printk. In summary the current