Re: [PATCH 1/1] checkpatch: recognise NOKPROBE_SYMBOL for blank line detection after function/struct/union/enum

[Heiko Carstens]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 12:46:49PM +0100, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> NOKPROBE_SYMBOL should be treated like EXPORT_SYMBOL to avoid
> false positives.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 78cc595b98ce..037acbcee0e1 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -3995,6 +3995,7 @@ sub process {
>  		    $line =~ /^\+/ &&
>  		    !($line =~ /^\+\s*$/ ||
>  		      $line =~ /^\+\s*(?:EXPORT_SYMBOL|early_param)/ ||
> +		      $line =~ /^\+\s*NOKPROBE_SYMBOL/ ||
>  		      $line =~ /^\+\s*MODULE_/i ||
>  		      $line =~ /^\+\s*\#\s*(?:end|elif|else)/ ||
>  		      $line =~ /^\+[a-z_]*init/ ||

Seven months later... Joe, is there actually anything that prevents this
from being merged?
You were the only one who replied back then:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230120114649.117018-1-borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/

And it is kind of not obvious what the result was.