checkpatch: fix jiffies comparison and others
checkpatch could not distinguish between a variable in a struct named
jiffies and the normal jiffies.
foo->jiffies
would emit a "Comparing jiffies" arning.
Update the $Compare variable to do a negative look-behind for "-" when
finding a ">" so that a pointer dereference like -> isn't a comparison.
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>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index e7c50977..646295c 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -296,7 +296,7 @@
our $Float = qr{$Float_hex|$Float_dec|$Float_int};
our $Constant = qr{$Float|$Binary|$Octal|$Hex|$Int};
our $Assignment = qr{\*\=|/=|%=|\+=|-=|<<=|>>=|&=|\^=|\|=|=};
-our $Compare = qr{<=|>=|==|!=|<|>};
+our $Compare = qr{<=|>=|==|!=|<|(?<!-)>};
our $Arithmetic = qr{\+|-|\*|\/|%};
our $Operators = qr{
<=|>=|==|!=|