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| author | Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> | 2016-05-20 17:04:02 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2016-05-20 17:58:30 -0700 |
| commit | f39e1769bbfc4936ff8364fb2529dc8bf6bc6888 (patch) | |
| tree | a3ed1a88fa0d29022c876037258ecb5827a2fea2 /scripts | |
| parent | 2d6327459ec5e63a89b12945f483f6d7378a8839 (diff) | |
checkpatch: improve CONSTANT_COMPARISON test for structure members
A "." dereference to an all uppercase structure member can be
incorrectly reported as a CONSTANT_COMPARISON.
ie: "if (table[i].PANELID == tempdx)"
Fix it by checking for "." before the constant test.
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index eb8f88787e81..e3d9c34b1b53 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -4291,7 +4291,7 @@ sub process { my $comp = $3; my $to = $4; my $newcomp = $comp; - if ($lead !~ /$Operators\s*$/ && + if ($lead !~ /(?:$Operators|\.)\s*$/ && $to !~ /^(?:Constant|[A-Z_][A-Z0-9_]*)$/ && WARN("CONSTANT_COMPARISON", "Comparisons should place the constant on the right side of the test\n" . $herecurr) && |