[PATCH 2/3] checkpatch: tweak extern in C warning

[Jim Cromie]

The extern-in-C rule has one important exception: the symbol is
defined in/by the linker script.  By convention, these almost always
contain: _start, _stop, _end.  Suppress the warning on such symbols.

Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 4fe9fab20009..a8dfba53b593 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -6910,7 +6910,8 @@ sub process {
 		    $stat =~ /^.\s*extern\s+/)
 		{
 			WARN("AVOID_EXTERNS",
-			     "externs should be avoided in .c files\n" .  $herecurr);
+			     "externs should be avoided in .c files\n($stat)\n" .  $herecurr)
+			    unless $stat =~ /_start|_stop|_end/;
 		}
 
 # check for function declarations that have arguments without identifier names
-- 
2.31.1