checkpatch: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() check

Now that VMLINUX_SYMBOL() is no-op and being removed, let's stop
checking VMLINUX_SYMBOL().

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index e16d6713f236..ce582a820c92 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -5121,16 +5121,6 @@ sub process {
                         }
                 }
 
-# make sure symbols are always wrapped with VMLINUX_SYMBOL() ...
-# all assignments may have only one of the following with an assignment:
-#       .
-#       ALIGN(...)
-#       VMLINUX_SYMBOL(...)
-                if ($realfile eq 'vmlinux.lds.h' && $line =~ /(?:(?:^|\s)$Ident\s*=|=\s*$Ident(?:\s|$))/) {
-                        WARN("MISSING_VMLINUX_SYMBOL",
-                             "vmlinux.lds.h needs VMLINUX_SYMBOL() around C-visible symbols\n" . $herecurr);
-                }
-
 # check for redundant bracing round if etc
                 if ($line =~ /(^.*)\bif\b/ && $1 !~ /else\s*$/) {
                         my ($level, $endln, @chunks) =