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>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 906624c..a521d49 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1632,7 +1632,7 @@
$herecurr);
}
# check for static initialisers.
- if ($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);
}
