diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 13 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 377f373db6c0..93e84c9504a1 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3890,14 +3890,23 @@ sub process { WARN("STATIC_CONST_CHAR_ARRAY", "static const char * array should probably be static const char * const\n" . $herecurr); - } + } + +# check for initialized const char arrays that should be static const + if ($line =~ /^\+\s*const\s+(char|unsigned\s+char|_*u8|(?:[us]_)?int8_t)\s+\w+\s*\[\s*(?:\w+\s*)?\]\s*=\s*"/) { + if (WARN("STATIC_CONST_CHAR_ARRAY", + "const array should probably be static const\n" . $herecurr) && + $fix) { + $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/(^.\s*)const\b/${1}static const/; + } + } # check for static char foo[] = "bar" declarations. if ($line =~ /\bstatic\s+char\s+(\w+)\s*\[\s*\]\s*=\s*"/) { WARN("STATIC_CONST_CHAR_ARRAY", "static char array declaration should probably be static const char\n" . $herecurr); - } + } # check for const <foo> const where <foo> is not a pointer or array type if ($sline =~ /\bconst\s+($BasicType)\s+const\b/) { |