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| author | Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> | 2009-01-15 13:51:07 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-01-15 16:39:39 -0800 |
| commit | 6903ffb2257266472ef2edd0092d526ae2dc00f7 (patch) | |
| tree | 6892ad9fbef5b6aeabd0a0fd05d633c754defed1 /scripts | |
| parent | 39667782362becd5527e48d6c976a9f9985b95e6 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-6903ffb2257266472ef2edd0092d526ae2dc00f7.tar.gz lwn-6903ffb2257266472ef2edd0092d526ae2dc00f7.zip | |
checkpatch: struct seq_operations should normally be const
In the general use case struct seq_operations should be a const object.
Check for and warn where it is not.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 5ea55e330c24..447435c33dd5 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2527,9 +2527,10 @@ sub process { WARN("please use device_initcall() instead of __initcall()\n" . $herecurr); } # check for struct file_operations, ensure they are const. - if ($line =~ /\bstruct\s+file_operations\b/ && - $line !~ /\bconst\b/) { - WARN("struct file_operations should normally be const\n" . $herecurr); + if ($line !~ /\bconst\b/ && + $line =~ /\bstruct\s+(file_operations|seq_operations)\b/) { + WARN("struct $1 should normally be const\n" . + $herecurr); } # use of NR_CPUS is usually wrong |