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| author |   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> | 2015-02-13 14:39:05 -0800 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2015-02-13 21:21:40 -0800 |
| commit | 0f3c5aab5e00527eb3167aa9d1725cca9320e01e (patch) | |
| tree | fb608e409b321504e831d79bb40ff327bb0e1827 /scripts | |
| parent | checkpatch: try to avoid poor patch subject lines (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-0f3c5aab5e00527eb3167aa9d1725cca9320e01e.tar.xz linux-dev-0f3c5aab5e00527eb3167aa9d1725cca9320e01e.zip | |
checkpatch: add of_device_id to structs that should be const
Uses of struct of_device_id are most commonly const.
Suggest using it as such.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
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 | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 9c720e1261e9..d12435992dea 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -5223,8 +5223,9 @@ sub process { "please use device_initcall() or more appropriate function instead of __initcall() (see include/linux/init.h)\n" . $herecurr); } -# check for various ops structs, ensure they are const. - my $struct_ops = qr{acpi_dock_ops| +# check for various structs that are normally const (ops, kgdb, device_tree) + my $const_structs = qr{ + acpi_dock_ops| address_space_operations| backlight_ops| block_device_operations| @@ -5247,6 +5248,7 @@ sub process { mtrr_ops| neigh_ops| nlmsvc_binding| + of_device_id| pci_raw_ops| pipe_buf_operations| platform_hibernation_ops| @@ -5262,7 +5264,7 @@ sub process { usb_mon_operations| wd_ops}x; if ($line !~ /\bconst\b/ && - $line =~ /\bstruct\s+($struct_ops)\b/) { + $line =~ /\bstruct\s+($const_structs)\b/) { WARN("CONST_STRUCT", "struct $1 should normally be const\n" . $herecurr); |