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 <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andy Whitcroft 2009-01-06 14:41:28 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 4635f4fbaf
commit 2d1bafd799

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@ -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);
}