Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: don't match against empty $const_structs

[Jerome Forissier <jerome.forissier@linaro.org>]

On 10/20/2016 10:16 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-10-20 at 10:12 +0200, Jerome Forissier wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Why should $const_structs ever be empty?

When running out-of-tree, i.e., using checkpatch.pl on non-kernel sources.

> 
>> Signed-off-by: Jerome Forissier <jerome.forissier@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" .
>>