enforce experimental tag at beginning of declarations

[dpdk.git] / devtools / checkpatches.sh

diff --git a/devtools/checkpatches.sh b/devtools/checkpatches.sh
index d150353..dbdf08e 100755 (executable)
--- a/devtools/checkpatches.sh
+++ b/devtools/checkpatches.sh
@@ -96,6 +96,11 @@ check_experimental_tags() { # <patch>
                                "headers ("current_file")";
                        ret = 1;
                }
+               if ($1 != "+__rte_experimental" || $2 != "") {
+                       print "__rte_experimental must appear alone on the line" \
+                               " immediately preceding the return type of a function."
+                       ret = 1;
+               }
        }
        END {
                exit ret;