On Fri, 2018-07-27 at 10:04 +0000, David Laight wrote: > From: Andrew Morton > > Sent: 26 July 2018 20:28 > > On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 12:25:33 -0700 Andrew Morton > > <a...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > > > > > I'll give it a spin, see how noisy it is. > > > > Actually, I would prefer if the message, changelog and title > > used the term "passed by value". It's a more familiar term > > and it is possible for a passed-by-value aggregate to in fact > > be passed in registers. > > You need to detect (and ignore) 'small' structures.
checkpatch is stupid and basically can't do that as it has no context other than the current line. It would need a list of specific struct types to ignore. Care to create and send that list to me? >From an earlier message: On Thu, 2018-07-26 at 13:05 -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > It doesn't seem noisy at all, but maybe there are a few > known structs like "struct timespec64" that could be > excluded.
