From 2b6db5cb65cb1276a7aa363a6e7335b0a8a68393 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Whitcroft Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 14:41:29 -0800 Subject: checkpatch: struct file_operations should normally be const In the general use case struct file_operations should be a const object. Check for and warn where it is not. As suggested by Steven and Ingo. Acked-by: Steven Rostedt Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'scripts') diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index c39ce0b663b..94371f69122 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2509,6 +2509,11 @@ sub process { if ($line =~ /^.\s*__initcall\s*\(/) { WARN("please use device_initcall() instead of __initcall()\n" . $herecurr); } +# check for struct file_operations, ensure they are const. + if ($line =~ /\bstruct\s+file_operations\b/ && + $line !~ /\bconst\b/) { + WARN("struct file_operations should normally be const\n" . $herecurr); + } # use of NR_CPUS is usually wrong # ignore definitions of NR_CPUS and usage to define arrays as likely right -- cgit v1.2.3