checkpatch: do not report nr_static as a static declaration

Ensure we do not report identifiers containing the word static as static
declarations.  For example this should not be reported as an unecessary
assignement of 0:

	long nr_static = 0;

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 906624c0e9e6a6862631f085c263049e5d3eed58..a521d493b0c8600790d20b9574fc445d98f18d4a 100755 (executable)
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1632,7 +1632,7 @@ sub process {
                                $herecurr);
                }
 # check for static initialisers.
-               if ($line =~ /\s*static\s.*=\s*(0|NULL|false)\s*;/) {
+               if ($line =~ /\bstatic\s.*=\s*(0|NULL|false)\s*;/) {
                        ERROR("do not initialise statics to 0 or NULL\n" .
                                $herecurr);
                }