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| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index eac40f0abd56..2be07ed4d70c 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -4199,6 +4199,17 @@ sub process { "ENOSYS means 'invalid syscall nr' and nothing else\n" . $herecurr); } +# ENOTSUPP is not a standard error code and should be avoided in new patches. +# Folks usually mean EOPNOTSUPP (also called ENOTSUP), when they type ENOTSUPP. +# Similarly to ENOSYS warning a small number of false positives is expected. + if (!$file && $line =~ /\bENOTSUPP\b/) { + if (WARN("ENOTSUPP", + "ENOTSUPP is not a SUSV4 error code, prefer EOPNOTSUPP\n" . $herecurr) && + $fix) { + $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\bENOTSUPP\b/EOPNOTSUPP/; + } + } + # function brace can't be on same line, except for #defines of do while, # or if closed on same line if ($perl_version_ok && |