scripts/checkpatch.pl: add check for declaration of pci_device_id
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.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 2ec5fc6..90b54d4 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1881,6 +1881,11 @@
$herecurr);
}
+# check for declarations of struct pci_device_id
+ if ($line =~ /\bstruct\s+pci_device_id\s+\w+\s*\[\s*\]\s*\=\s*\{/) {
+ WARN("Use DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE for struct pci_device_id\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
+
# check for new typedefs, only function parameters and sparse annotations
# make sense.
if ($line =~ /\btypedef\s/ &&