checkpatch: fix UNNECESSARY_KERN_LEVEL false positive
KERN_<LEVEL> is never redundant with printk_ratelimited or printk_once.
(Except perhaps in the sense that you could use e.g. pr_err_ratelimited
or pr_err_once, but that would apply to printk as well).
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
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 221a2b24..f130c93 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -4547,7 +4547,7 @@
}
# check for logging functions with KERN_<LEVEL>
- if ($line !~ /printk\s*\(/ &&
+ if ($line !~ /printk(?:_ratelimited|_once)?\s*\(/ &&
$line =~ /\b$logFunctions\s*\(.*\b(KERN_[A-Z]+)\b/) {
my $level = $1;
if (WARN("UNNECESSARY_KERN_LEVEL",