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checkpatch: Remove ENOSYS check #29806

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8 changes: 0 additions & 8 deletions scripts/checkpatch.pl
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Expand Up @@ -4255,14 +4255,6 @@ 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);
}

# ENOTSUPP is not a standard error code and should be avoided in new patches.
# Folks usually mean EOPNOTSUPP (also called ENOTSUP), when they type ENOTSUPP.
# Similarly to ENOSYS warning a small number of false positives is expected.
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