Hi,
currently, checkpatch.pl gives false positive NON_OCTAL_PERMISSIONS
errors for IIO_DEV_ATTR_CH_OFF (beginning of output removed):
$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f drivers/staging/iio/meter/ade7759.c
...
ERROR: Use 4 digit octal (0777) not decimal permissions
#331: FILE: drivers/staging/iio/meter/ade7759.c:331:
+static IIO_DEV_ATTR_CH_OFF(1, 0644,
+ ade7759_read_8bit,
+ ade7759_write_8bit,
+ ADE7759_CH1OS);
...
checkpatch.pl matches IIO_DEV_ATTR_[A-Z_]+ with the first argument, but
the mode for IIO_DEV_ATTR_CH_OFF is the second argument.
A quick grep in drivers/ shows that IIO_DEV_ATTR_CH_OFF is used only four
times (drivers/staging/iio/meter/ade775{3,9}.c). This means one way of solving
this problem would be to change IIO_DEV_ATTR_CH_OFF to have the mode as the
first argument.
Another way would be adding an exclude field to @mode_permission_funcs in
checkpatch.pl. I added an example patch at the end of this email. The exclude
would be also a regex. This would allow us to solve the issue as shown below:
@@ -554,7 +554,8 @@ our @mode_permission_funcs = (
["debugfs_create_(?:file|u8|u16|u32|u64|x8|x16|x32|x64|size_t|atomic_t|bool|blob|regset32|u32_array)",
2],
["proc_create(?:_data|)", 2],
["(?:CLASS|DEVICE|SENSOR|SENSOR_DEVICE|IIO_DEVICE)_ATTR", 2],
- ["IIO_DEV_ATTR_[A-Z_]+", 1],
+ ["IIO_DEV_ATTR_CH_OFF", 2],
+ ["IIO_DEV_ATTR_[A-Z_]+", 1, "IIO_DEV_ATTR_CH_OFF"],
I don't think listing all the different IIO_DEV_ATTR_* in mode_permission_funcs
is
a good solution because there are many:
$ grep "define IIO_DEV_ATTR_" -R drivers/ | wc -l
125
Example exclusion patch:
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 +++++++
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 3d4040322ae1..4f77fa7b6aa1 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -6379,6 +6379,7 @@ sub process {
foreach my $entry (@mode_permission_funcs) {
my $func = $entry->[0];
my $arg_pos = $entry->[1];
+ my $exclude_func = $entry->[2];
my $lc = $stat =~ tr@\n@@;
$lc = $lc + $linenr;
@@ -6392,8 +6393,14 @@ sub process {
$arg_pos--;
$skip_args =
"(?:\\s*$FuncArg\\s*,\\s*){$arg_pos,$arg_pos}";
}
+
my $test =
"\\b$func\\s*\\(${skip_args}($FuncArg(?:\\|\\s*$FuncArg)*)\\s*[,\\)]";
if ($stat =~ /$test/) {
+ if ($exclude_func) {
+ my $exclude_test =
"\\b$exclude_func\\s*\\(${skip_args}($FuncArg(?:\\|\\s*$FuncArg)*)\\s*[,\\)]";
+ next if ($stat =~
/$exclude_test/);
+ }
+
my $val = $1;
$val = $6 if ($skip_args ne "");
if (!($func =~
/^(?:module_param|proc_create)/ && $val eq "0") &&
--
2.16.2
