Subject: Re: [RFC 19/19] checkpatch: warn for use of old PCI pool API

From: Peter Senna Tschudin <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2017 19:55:50 +0100

On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 05:34:57PM +0100, Romain Perier wrote:
> pci_pool_*() functions should be replaced by the corresponding functions
> in the DMA pool API. This adds support to check for use of these pci
> functions and display a warning when it is the case.

Don't know if relevant, but did not catch the struct. Other than that
works fine.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Romain Perier <[email-masked]>
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 8e96af5..026920e 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -6058,6 +6058,11 @@ sub process {
>  			WARN("USE_DEVICE_INITCALL",
>  			     "please use device_initcall() or more appropriate function instead of __initcall() (see include/linux/init.h)\n" . $herecurr);
>  		}
> +# check for old PCI api pci_pool_*(), use dma_pool_*() instead
> +		if ($line =~ /\bpci_pool_.+\(/) {
> +			WARN("USE_PCI_POOL",
> +			     "please use the dma pool api or more appropriate function instead of the old pci pool api\n" . $herecurr);
> +		}
>  
>  # check for various structs that are normally const (ops, kgdb, device_tree)
>  		if ($line !~ /\bconst\b/ &&
> -- 
> 2.9.3
>