devtools: avoid explicit experimental build flag

[dpdk.git] / devtools / checkpatches.sh

diff --git a/devtools/checkpatches.sh b/devtools/checkpatches.sh
index 6966922..0b94a31 100755 (executable)
--- a/devtools/checkpatches.sh
+++ b/devtools/checkpatches.sh
@@ -110,6 +110,14 @@ check_forbidden_additions() { # <patch>
                -f $(dirname $(readlink -f $0))/check-forbidden-tokens.awk \
                "$1" || res=1
 
+       # forbid use of experimental build flag except in examples
+       awk -v FOLDERS='lib drivers app' \
+               -v EXPRESSIONS='-DALLOW_EXPERIMENTAL_API allow_experimental_apis' \
+               -v RET_ON_FAIL=1 \
+               -v MESSAGE='Using experimental build flag for in-tree compilation' \
+               -f $(dirname $(readlink -f $0))/check-forbidden-tokens.awk \
+               "$1" || res=1
+
        # svg figures must be included with wildcard extension
        # because of png conversion for pdf docs
        awk -v FOLDERS='doc' \