checkpatch: fix false positive on __initconst
checkpatch falsely complained about '__initconst' because it thought the
'const' needed a space before. Fix this by changing the list of
attributes:
- add '__initconst'
- force plain 'init' to contain a word-boundary at the end
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
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 9a3894d..1530dbf 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -145,11 +145,14 @@
__kprobes|
__ref
}x;
+
+# Notes to $Attribute:
+# We need \b after 'init' otherwise 'initconst' will cause a false positive in a check
our $Attribute = qr{
const|
__read_mostly|
__kprobes|
- __(?:mem|cpu|dev|)(?:initdata|init)|
+ __(?:mem|cpu|dev|)(?:initdata|initconst|init\b)|
____cacheline_aligned|
____cacheline_aligned_in_smp|
____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp|