Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: add *_NOTIFIER_HEAD as var definition

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2019-07-04 at 13:44 +0300, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
> Add *_NOTIFIER_HEAD as variable definition to avoid code like this:
> 
> ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(foo);
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(foo);
> 
> From triggering the the following warning:
> WARNING: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its function/variable
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> Changes from v1:
> - Better RegExp as suggested by Joe Perches.

Seems fine thanks.

>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 342c7c781ba5..9cadda7024ae 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -3864,6 +3864,7 @@ sub process {
>  				^.DEFINE_$Ident\(\Q$name\E\)|
>  				^.DECLARE_$Ident\(\Q$name\E\)|
>  				^.LIST_HEAD\(\Q$name\E\)|
> +				^.{$Ident}_NOTIFIER_HEAD\(\Q$name\E\)|
>  				^.(?:$Storage\s+)?$Type\s*\(\s*\*\s*\Q$name\E\s*\)\s*\(|
>  				\b\Q$name\E(?:\s+$Attribute)*\s*(?:;|=|\[|\()
>  			    )/x) {