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authorIsrael Schlesinger <israels@codeaurora.org>2010-07-21 13:34:18 -0700
committerDavid Keitel <dkeitel@codeaurora.org>2016-03-23 20:51:38 -0700
commit4269e5ecb93c44af27ef14190c5b15d0269d4774 (patch)
tree29c264418aadb32390754ca89250fa7b67c48f8c /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parent273eceed84588e39beca980113d91c8e3ac9ff66 (diff)
checkpatch: Add warnings for use of mdelay()
Signed-off-by: Israel Schlesinger <israels@codeaurora.org> (cherry picked from commit 084af58596758be6e51ef060aefa2cd622dc9205) Signed-off-by: Stepan Moskovchenko <stepanm@codeaurora.org>
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-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index b036809e7588..72ed2387b7bd 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -5096,6 +5096,12 @@ sub process {
"Comparing get_jiffies_64() is almost always wrong; prefer time_after64, time_before64 and friends\n" . $herecurr);
}
+# check the patch for use of mdelay
+ if ($line =~ /\bmdelay\s*\(/) {
+ WARN("MDELAY",
+ "use of mdelay() found: msleep() is the preferred API.\n" . $herecurr );
+ }
+
# warn about #ifdefs in C files
# if ($line =~ /^.\s*\#\s*if(|n)def/ && ($realfile =~ /\.c$/)) {
# print "#ifdef in C files should be avoided\n";