From 447432f32328dcd081ae5e23f27d2ffa19f2ecf8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 14:49:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: fix jiffies comparison and others

checkpatch could not distinguish between a variable in a struct named
jiffies and the normal jiffies.

	foo->jiffies

would emit a "Comparing jiffies" arning.

Update the $Compare variable to do a negative look-behind for "-" when
finding a ">" so that a pointer dereference like -> isn't a comparison.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index e7c50977fe3d5..646295cd99906 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@ our $Float_int	= qr{(?i)[0-9]+e-?[0-9]+[fl]?};
 our $Float	= qr{$Float_hex|$Float_dec|$Float_int};
 our $Constant	= qr{$Float|$Binary|$Octal|$Hex|$Int};
 our $Assignment	= qr{\*\=|/=|%=|\+=|-=|<<=|>>=|&=|\^=|\|=|=};
-our $Compare    = qr{<=|>=|==|!=|<|>};
+our $Compare    = qr{<=|>=|==|!=|<|(?<!-)>};
 our $Arithmetic = qr{\+|-|\*|\/|%};
 our $Operators	= qr{
 			<=|>=|==|!=|
-- 
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