[PATCH] checkpatch: drop ENOSYS warning
Ahmad Fatoum
a.fatoum at barebox.org
Tue Sep 16 00:19:35 PDT 2025
We don't have system calls in barebox and we make ample use of ENOSYS,
so let's drop the checkpatch warning to avoid confusion.
Reported-by: Christian Thießen <christian.thiessen at airbus.com>
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at barebox.org>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 8 --------
1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 9093841d8179..1592497fb38a 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -4102,14 +4102,6 @@ sub process {
"Prefer dev_$level(... to dev_printk(KERN_$orig, ...\n" . $herecurr);
}
-# ENOSYS means "bad syscall nr" and nothing else. This will have a small
-# number of false positives, but assembly files are not checked, so at
-# least the arch entry code will not trigger this warning.
- if ($line =~ /\bENOSYS\b/) {
- WARN("ENOSYS",
- "ENOSYS means 'invalid syscall nr' and nothing else\n" . $herecurr);
- }
-
# function brace can't be on same line, except for #defines of do while,
# or if closed on same line
if ($perl_version_ok &&
--
2.47.3
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