The function perror is another way to print to stderr, which should be discouraged in drivers and libraries.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]> --- devtools/checkpatches.sh | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/devtools/checkpatches.sh b/devtools/checkpatches.sh index 9a8199659f..1c6099ac82 100755 --- a/devtools/checkpatches.sh +++ b/devtools/checkpatches.sh @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ check_forbidden_additions() { # <patch> # no output on stdout or stderr awk -v FOLDERS="lib drivers" \ - -v EXPRESSIONS="\\\<printf\\\> \\\<fprintf\\\(stdout, \\\<fprintf\\\(stderr," \ + -v EXPRESSIONS="perror\\\( \\\<printf\\\> \\\<fprintf\\\(stdout, \\\<fprintf\\\(stderr," \ -v RET_ON_FAIL=1 \ -v MESSAGE='Writing to stdout or stderr' \ -f $(dirname $(readlink -f $0))/check-forbidden-tokens.awk \ -- 2.51.0
