eal: add internal ABI tag definition

[dpdk.git] / devtools / checkpatches.sh

diff --git a/devtools/checkpatches.sh b/devtools/checkpatches.sh
index c30ce64..42b833e 100755 (executable)
--- a/devtools/checkpatches.sh
+++ b/devtools/checkpatches.sh
@@ -111,6 +111,37 @@ check_experimental_tags() { # <patch>
        return $res
 }
 
+check_internal_tags() { # <patch>
+       res=0
+
+       cat "$1" |awk '
+       BEGIN {
+               current_file = "";
+               ret = 0;
+       }
+       /^+++ b\// {
+               current_file = $2;
+       }
+       /^+.*__rte_internal/ {
+               if (current_file ~ ".c$" ) {
+                       print "Please only put __rte_internal tags in " \
+                               "headers ("current_file")";
+                       ret = 1;
+               }
+               if ($1 != "+__rte_internal" || $2 != "") {
+                       print "__rte_internal must appear alone on the line" \
+                               " immediately preceding the return type of" \
+                               " a function."
+                       ret = 1;
+               }
+       }
+       END {
+               exit ret;
+       }' || res=1
+
+       return $res
+}
+
 number=0
 range='origin/master..'
 quiet=false
@@ -194,6 +225,14 @@ check () { # <patch> <commit> <title>
                ret=1
        fi
 
+       ! $verbose || printf '\nChecking __rte_internal tags:\n'
+       report=$(check_internal_tags "$tmpinput")
+       if [ $? -ne 0 ] ; then
+               $headline_printed || print_headline "$3"
+               printf '%s\n' "$report"
+               ret=1
+       fi
+
        if [ "$tmpinput" != "$1" ]; then
                rm -f "$tmpinput"
                trap - INT