Using 0x%d is wrong. Emit a message when it happens. Miscellanea:
improve the %Lu warning to match formats like %16Lu Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> --- Resend with better email client scripts/checkpatch.pl | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 50693f5..e367eab 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -4816,16 +4816,20 @@ sub process { "Consecutive strings are generally better as a single string\n" . $herecurr); } -# check for %L{u,d,i} in strings +# check for %L{u,d,i} and 0x%[udi] in strings my $string; while ($line =~ /(?:^|")([X\t]*)(?:"|$)/g) { $string = substr($rawline, $-[1], $+[1] - $-[1]); $string =~ s/%%/__/g; - if ($string =~ /(?<!%)%L[udi]/) { + if ($string =~ /(?<!%)%[\*\d\.\$]*L[udi]/) { WARN("PRINTF_L", "\%Ld/%Lu are not-standard C, use %lld/%llu\n" . $herecurr); last; } + if ($string =~ /0x%[\*\d\.\$\Llzth]*[udi]/) { + ERROR("PRINTF_0xDECIMAL", + "Prefixing 0x with decimal output is defective\n" . $herecurr); + } } # check for line continuations in quoted strings with odd counts of " -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/