From d9190e4e1a057ad55027cbefd1d21f6eae93fe0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 15:55:45 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: avoid suggesting struct definitions should be
const
Many structs are generally used const and there is a known list of these
structs.
struct definitions should not be generally be declared const.
Add a test for the lack of an open brace immediately after the struct to
avoid definitions.
This avoids the false positive "struct foo should normally be const"
message only when the open brace is on the same line as the definition.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0dce709150d712e66f1b90b03827634b53b28085.1491845946.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Arthur Brainville <ybalrid@ybalrid.info>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 089c974aa3a51..3a1cb9d7474e5 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -6090,11 +6090,11 @@ sub process {
}
# check for various structs that are normally const (ops, kgdb, device_tree)
+# and avoid what seem like struct definitions 'struct foo {'
if ($line !~ /\bconst\b/ &&
- $line =~ /\bstruct\s+($const_structs)\b/) {
+ $line =~ /\bstruct\s+($const_structs)\b(?!\s*\{)/) {
WARN("CONST_STRUCT",
- "struct $1 should normally be const\n" .
- $herecurr);
+ "struct $1 should normally be const\n" . $herecurr);
}
# use of NR_CPUS is usually wrong
--
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