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| author | Taylor Nelms <tknelms@google.com> | 2026-03-31 14:15:09 -0400 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2026-04-15 02:15:02 -0700 |
| commit | f758440d3d82f2e1804d7df281a64d9ad88b7f52 (patch) | |
| tree | be09e125ac3aa951e64906fc3e1a8cb771b32fff /scripts/checkpatch.pl | |
| parent | cc82b3dcc6a8fa259fbda12ab00d6fc00908a49e (diff) | |
checkpatch: exclude forward declarations of const structs
Limit checkpatch warnings for normally-const structs by excluding patterns
consistent with forward declarations.
For example, the forward declaration `struct regmap_access_table;` in a
header file currently generates a warning recommending that it is
generally declared as const; however, this would apply a useless type
qualifier in the empty declaration `const struct regmap_access_table;`,
and subsequently generate compiler warnings.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20260331181509.1258693-1-tknelms@google.com
Signed-off-by: Taylor Nelms <tknelms@google.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@gmail.com>
Cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 27a43a4d9c43..7e612d3e2c1a 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -7512,10 +7512,10 @@ sub process { } # check for various structs that are normally const (ops, kgdb, device_tree) -# and avoid what seem like struct definitions 'struct foo {' +# and avoid what seem like struct definitions 'struct foo {' or forward declarations 'struct foo;' if (defined($const_structs) && $line !~ /\bconst\b/ && - $line =~ /\bstruct\s+($const_structs)\b(?!\s*\{)/) { + $line =~ /\bstruct\s+($const_structs)\b(?!\s*[\{;])/) { WARN("CONST_STRUCT", "struct $1 should normally be const\n" . $herecurr); } |