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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 &&