This is how Linux does this now, see Linux commit 339f29d91acf.
Signed-off-by: Marek Behún marek.behun@nic.cz --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 755f4802a4..fd1e9c4d24 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -6065,7 +6065,7 @@ sub process { my $old = substr($rawline, $-[1], $+[1] - $-[1]); my $new = substr($old, 1, -1); if (WARN("PREFER_SECTION", - "__section($new) is preferred over __attribute__((section($old)))\n" . $herecurr) && + "__section("$new") is preferred over __attribute__((section($old)))\n" . $herecurr) && $fix) { $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\b__attribute__\s*(\s*(\s*_*section_*\s*(\s*\Q$old\E\s*)\s*)\s*)/__section($new)/; }