Now that VMLINUX_SYMBOL() is no-op and being removed, let's stop
checking VMLINUX_SYMBOL().

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <[email protected]>
---

 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 10 ----------
 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index e16d671..ce582a8 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -5121,16 +5121,6 @@ sub process {
                        }
                }
 
-# make sure symbols are always wrapped with VMLINUX_SYMBOL() ...
-# all assignments may have only one of the following with an assignment:
-#      .
-#      ALIGN(...)
-#      VMLINUX_SYMBOL(...)
-               if ($realfile eq 'vmlinux.lds.h' && $line =~ 
/(?:(?:^|\s)$Ident\s*=|=\s*$Ident(?:\s|$))/) {
-                       WARN("MISSING_VMLINUX_SYMBOL",
-                            "vmlinux.lds.h needs VMLINUX_SYMBOL() around 
C-visible symbols\n" . $herecurr);
-               }
-
 # check for redundant bracing round if etc
                if ($line =~ /(^.*)\bif\b/ && $1 !~ /else\s*$/) {
                        my ($level, $endln, @chunks) =
-- 
2.7.4

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