Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: add --fix option for INCLUDE_LINUX

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sat Nov 21 2020 - 15:05:48 EST


On Sat, 2020-11-21 at 21:47 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> Provide fix option to INCLUDE_LINUX check to replace asm
> includes.
>
> Macros of type:
>  #include <asm/percpu.h>
>
> are corrected to:
>  #include <linux/percpu.h>
[]
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> @@ -5468,8 +5468,11 @@ sub process {
>   CHK("ARCH_INCLUDE_LINUX",
>   "Consider using #include <linux/$file> instead of <asm/$file>\n" . $herecurr);
>   } else {
> - WARN("INCLUDE_LINUX",
> - "Use #include <linux/$file> instead of <asm/$file>\n" . $herecurr);
> + if (WARN("INCLUDE_LINUX",
> + "Use #include <linux/$file> instead of <asm/$file>\n" . $herecurr) &&
> + $fix) {
> + $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\<asm\/$file\>/\<linux\/$file\>/;

$file can include a slash.

e.g.: arch/arm/kernel/atags_parse.c:#include <asm/mach/arch.h>

Probably simpler to use /Q /E quoting.