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Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 74ccd122fc07..81c20557d974 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -4274,6 +4274,12 @@ sub process { "Prefer dev_$level(... to dev_printk(KERN_$orig, ...\n" . $herecurr); } +# trace_printk should not be used in production code. + if ($line =~ /\b(trace_printk|trace_puts|ftrace_vprintk)\s*\(/) { + WARN("TRACE_PRINTK", + "Do not use $1() in production code (this can be ignored if built only with a debug config option)\n" . $herecurr); + } + # ENOSYS means "bad syscall nr" and nothing else. This will have a small # number of false positives, but assembly files are not checked, so at # least the arch entry code will not trigger this warning. |