Commit 2d1bafd7 authored Jan 06, 2009 by Andy Whitcroft Committed by Linus Torvalds Jan 06, 2009

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>

parent 4635f4fb

scripts/checkpatch.pl

+1 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1632,7 +1632,7 @@ sub process {
		$herecurr);
		}
		# check for static initialisers.
		if ($line =~ /\sstatic\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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