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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2016-05-20 17:04:02 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-05-20 17:58:30 -0700
commitf39e1769bbfc4936ff8364fb2529dc8bf6bc6888 (patch)
treea3ed1a88fa0d29022c876037258ecb5827a2fea2 /scripts
parent2d6327459ec5e63a89b12945f483f6d7378a8839 (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-xscripts/checkpatch.pl2
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) &&