Avoid triggering on typedef struct BlockJobDriver BlockJobDriver;
or struct BlockJobDriver { Cc: John Snow <js...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 3afa19a..1f1c9d3 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2498,8 +2498,8 @@ sub process { VMStateDescription| VMStateInfo}x; if ($line !~ /\bconst\b/ && - $line =~ /\b($struct_ops)\b/) { - ERROR("struct $1 should normally be const\n" . + $line =~ /\b($struct_ops)\b.*=/) { + ERROR("initializer for struct $1 should normally be const\n" . $herecurr); } -- 2.7.4