From 6903ffb2257266472ef2edd0092d526ae2dc00f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:51:07 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] 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>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 5ea55e330c244..447435c33dd56 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
--
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