From e09dec4831bbb319987215ea0a280b2a620021b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:02:20 -0700
Subject: checkpatch: reduce warnings for #include of asm/foo.h to check from
 arch/bar.c

It is much more likely that an architecture file will want to directly
include asm header files.  Reduce this WARNING to a CHECK when the
referencing file is in the arch directory.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 0e5af8e..9e7e9d1 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1942,12 +1942,17 @@ sub process {
 
 #warn if <asm/foo.h> is #included and <linux/foo.h> is available (uses RAW line)
 		if ($tree && $rawline =~ m{^.\s*\#\s*include\s*\<asm\/(.*)\.h\>}) {
-			my $checkfile = "include/linux/$1.h";
-			if (-f "$root/$checkfile" && $realfile ne $checkfile &&
+			my $file = "$1.h";
+			my $checkfile = "include/linux/$file";
+			if (-f "$root/$checkfile" &&
+			    $realfile ne $checkfile &&
 			    $1 ne 'irq')
 			{
-				WARN("Use #include <linux/$1.h> instead of <asm/$1.h>\n" .
-					$herecurr);
+				if ($realfile =~ m{^arch/}) {
+					CHK("Consider using #include <linux/$file> instead of <asm/$file>\n" . $herecurr);
+				} else {
+					WARN("Use #include <linux/$file> instead of <asm/$file>\n" . $herecurr);
+				}
 			}
 		}
 
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