From: Djordje Todorovic <[email protected]> Developers should specify endianess explicitly.
Signed-off-by: Djordje Todorovic <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <[email protected]> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index d0f4537f25e..3a9557417f7 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3200,6 +3200,10 @@ sub process { if ($realfile =~ /.*\/hw\/.*/ && $line =~ /\baio_bh_new\s*\(/) { ERROR("use aio_bh_new_guarded() instead of aio_bh_new() to avoid reentrancy problems\n" . $herecurr); } +# check for DEVICE_NATIVE_ENDIAN, use explicit endianness instead + if ($line =~ /\bDEVICE_NATIVE_ENDIAN\b/) { + ERROR("DEVICE_NATIVE_ENDIAN is not allowed, use DEVICE_LITTLE_ENDIAN or DEVICE_BIG_ENDIAN instead\n" . $herecurr); + } # check for module_init(), use category-specific init macros explicitly please if ($line =~ /^module_init\s*\(/) { ERROR("please use block_init(), type_init() etc. instead of module_init()\n" . $herecurr); -- 2.51.0
