checkpatch: reduce warnings for #include of asm/foo.h to check from arch/bar.c
It is much more likely that an architecture file will want to directly
include asm header files. Reduce this WARNING to a CHECK when the
referencing file is in the arch directory.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 0e5af8e..9e7e9d1 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1942,12 +1942,17 @@
#warn if <asm/foo.h> is #included and <linux/foo.h> is available (uses RAW line)
if ($tree && $rawline =~ m{^.\s*\#\s*include\s*\<asm\/(.*)\.h\>}) {
- my $checkfile = "include/linux/$1.h";
- if (-f "$root/$checkfile" && $realfile ne $checkfile &&
+ my $file = "$1.h";
+ my $checkfile = "include/linux/$file";
+ if (-f "$root/$checkfile" &&
+ $realfile ne $checkfile &&
$1 ne 'irq')
{
- WARN("Use #include <linux/$1.h> instead of <asm/$1.h>\n" .
- $herecurr);
+ if ($realfile =~ m{^arch/}) {
+ CHK("Consider using #include <linux/$file> instead of <asm/$file>\n" . $herecurr);
+ } else {
+ WARN("Use #include <linux/$file> instead of <asm/$file>\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
}
}