checkpatch: fix __attribute__ matching
authorAndy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:50:15 +0000 (16:50 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:39:31 +0000 (07:39 -0700)
commit99423c2065b62fee41cdbd8da7e63bf1f8f9e9b0
treecce6a6498daee4630e0c1fa9f48ef922457cad68
parent2ceb532b04b7a3b8f534d11a6e839f8b8bff94c1
checkpatch: fix __attribute__ matching

In the following code,

union thread_union init_thread_union
__attribute__((__section__(".data.init_task"))) =
{ INIT_THREAD_INFO(init_task) };

There is a non-conforming declaration. It should really be like the
following,

union thread_union init_thread_union
__attribute__((__section__(".data.init_task"))) = {
INIT_THREAD_INFO(init_task)
};

However, checkpatch doesn't catch this right now because it doesn't
correctly evaluate the "__attribute__".

It is not at all clear that we care what preceeds an assignment style
attribute when we find the open brace.  Relax the test so we do not need
to check the __attribute__.

Reported-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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