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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2014-04-03 14:49:18 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-04-03 16:21:13 -0700
commit9b0fa60d9be0a82bc9e49bdd2dcacdfe4d1d5192 (patch)
tree6c3fa27f737a6a5221469ea0771da14b9fbdf2cd
parent447432f32328dcd081ae5e23f27d2ffa19f2ecf8 (diff)
checkpatch: add test for char * arrays that could be static const
static const char* arrays create smaller text as each function call does not have to populate the array. Emit a warning when char *arrays aren't static const and the array is not apparently global by being declared in the first column. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 646295cd9990..91308bec89b9 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2675,6 +2675,13 @@ sub process {
$herecurr);
}
+# check for non-global char *foo[] = {"bar", ...} declarations.
+ if ($line =~ /^.\s+(?:static\s+|const\s+)?char\s+\*\s*\w+\s*\[\s*\]\s*=\s*\{/) {
+ WARN("STATIC_CONST_CHAR_ARRAY",
+ "char * array declaration might be better as static const\n" .
+ $herecurr);
+ }
+
# check for function declarations without arguments like "int foo()"
if ($line =~ /(\b$Type\s+$Ident)\s*\(\s*\)/) {
if (ERROR("FUNCTION_WITHOUT_ARGS",