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authorJoe Eloff <kagen101@gmail.com>2010-08-09 17:21:00 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-08-09 20:45:09 -0700
commit5150bda43c58cdce7eb851c3fe2ca913524459a0 (patch)
treeec0a7222c7cb97bdf25823ec9d64d6e17b649fc8 /scripts
parent5f7ddae6104d85e27c0fbcb508cfe8286a01a5e1 (diff)
checkpatch: change externals to globals
Make error message say 'ERROR: do not initialise globals to 0 or NULL' rather than 'ERROR: do not initialise externals to 0 or NULL'. Makes more sense in the context since there is an extern keyword in C and that is a global declaration within the scope of the current file. Signed-off-by: Joe Eloff <kagen101@gmail.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index d7a44fd3b22..25d716cc44d 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1791,9 +1791,9 @@ sub process {
WARN("EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its function/variable\n" . $herecurr);
}
-# check for external initialisers.
+# check for global initialisers.
if ($line =~ /^.$Type\s*$Ident\s*(?:\s+$Modifier)*\s*=\s*(0|NULL|false)\s*;/) {
- ERROR("do not initialise externals to 0 or NULL\n" .
+ ERROR("do not initialise globals to 0 or NULL\n" .
$herecurr);
}
# check for static initialisers.