Re: [PATCH v5] checkpatch: extend attributes check to handle more patterns

[Joe Perches]

On Sun, 2020-10-25 at 23:40 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 25, 2020 at 11:29 PM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > Using $rawline would also change comments and that seems wrong.
> > Any reason to use $rawline instead of $line?
> Yes I used $line initially but changed it because quoted
> strings were being replaced.
> 
> Like:
> __attribute__((__section__("_ftrace_events")))

Right thanks, that's a very sensible tradeoff to reduce code complexity.