Subject: [merged] checkpatch-add-test-for-char-arrays-that-could-be-static-const.patch removed from -mm tree To: joe@xxxxxxxxxxx,mm-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx From: akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 12:34:04 -0700 The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: add test for char * arrays that could be static const has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was checkpatch-add-test-for-char-arrays-that-could-be-static-const.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: add test for char * arrays that could be static const static const char* arrays create smaller text as each function call does not have to populate the array. Emit a warning when char *arrays aren't static const and the array is not apparently global by being declared in the first column. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-add-test-for-char-arrays-that-could-be-static-const scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-add-test-for-char-arrays-that-could-be-static-const +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2675,6 +2675,13 @@ sub process { $herecurr); } +# check for non-global char *foo[] = {"bar", ...} declarations. + if ($line =~ /^.\s+(?:static\s+|const\s+)?char\s+\*\s*\w+\s*\[\s*\]\s*=\s*\{/) { + WARN("STATIC_CONST_CHAR_ARRAY", + "char * array declaration might be better as static const\n" . + $herecurr); + } + # check for function declarations without arguments like "int foo()" if ($line =~ /(\b$Type\s+$Ident)\s*\(\s*\)/) { if (ERROR("FUNCTION_WITHOUT_ARGS", _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch ntfs-logging-clean-up.patch mm-utilc-add-kstrimdup.patch checkpatch-always-warn-on-missing-blank-line-after-variable-declaration-block.patch checkpatch-reduce-false-positives-for-missing-blank-line-after-declarations-test.patch checkpatch-reduce-false-positives-for-missing-blank-line-after-declarations-test-fix.patch ncpfs-add-pr_fmt-and-convert-printks-to-pr_level.patch ncpfs-convert-dprintk-ddprintk-to-ncp_dbg.patch ncpfs-convert-dprintk-ddprintk-to-ncp_dbg-fix.patch ncpfs-convert-dprintk-ddprintk-to-ncp_dbg-fix-fix.patch ncpfs-convert-pprintk-to-ncp_vdbg.patch ncpfs-remove-now-unused-printk-macro.patch ncpfs-inode-fix-mismatch-printk-formats-and-arguments.patch linux-next.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html