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checkpatch.pl: extend list of expected-to-be-const structures
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Based on Arjan's suggestion, extend the list of ops structures that should
be const.

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Emese Revfy authored and Linus Torvalds committed Mar 6, 2010
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Expand Up @@ -2654,9 +2654,46 @@ sub process {
if ($line =~ /^.\s*__initcall\s*\(/) {
WARN("please use device_initcall() instead of __initcall()\n" . $herecurr);
}
# check for struct file_operations, ensure they are const.
# check for various ops structs, ensure they are const.
my $struct_ops = qr{acpi_dock_ops|
address_space_operations|
backlight_ops|
block_device_operations|
dentry_operations|
dev_pm_ops|
dma_map_ops|
extent_io_ops|
file_lock_operations|
file_operations|
hv_ops|
ide_dma_ops|
intel_dvo_dev_ops|
item_operations|
iwl_ops|
kgdb_arch|
kgdb_io|
kset_uevent_ops|
lock_manager_operations|
microcode_ops|
mtrr_ops|
neigh_ops|
nlmsvc_binding|
pci_raw_ops|
pipe_buf_operations|
platform_hibernation_ops|
platform_suspend_ops|
proto_ops|
rpc_pipe_ops|
seq_operations|
snd_ac97_build_ops|
soc_pcmcia_socket_ops|
stacktrace_ops|
sysfs_ops|
tty_operations|
usb_mon_operations|
wd_ops}x;
if ($line !~ /\bconst\b/ &&
$line =~ /\bstruct\s+(file_operations|seq_operations)\b/) {
$line =~ /\bstruct\s+($struct_ops)\b/) {
WARN("struct $1 should normally be const\n" .
$herecurr);
}
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