When $conststructsfile does not exist or is empty, we may get false
warnings such as:
WARNING: struct should normally be const
Fix that by not running the string match if $const_structs is empty.
Signed-off-by: Jerome Forissier <jerome.foriss...@linaro.org>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index a8368d1..722a319 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -6010,7 +6010,8 @@ sub process {
}
# check for various structs that are normally const (ops, kgdb, device_tree)
- if ($line !~ /\bconst\b/ &&
+ if ($const_structs ne "" &&
+ $line !~ /\bconst\b/ &&
$line =~ /\bstruct\s+($const_structs)\b/) {
WARN("CONST_STRUCT",
"struct $1 should normally be const\n" .
--
2.7.4
