From 2d1bafd799ee0442979e6ce4145d58b69d3cade2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:41:28 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: do not report nr_static as a static declaration
Ensure we do not report identifiers containing the word static as static
declarations. For example this should not be reported as an unecessary
assignement of 0:
long nr_static = 0;
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.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 906624c0e9e6..a521d493b0c8 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1632,7 +1632,7 @@ sub process {
$herecurr);
}
# check for static initialisers.
- if ($line =~ /\s*static\s.*=\s*(0|NULL|false)\s*;/) {
+ if ($line =~ /\bstatic\s.*=\s*(0|NULL|false)\s*;/) {
ERROR("do not initialise statics to 0 or NULL\n" .
$herecurr);
}
--
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