checkpatch: improve CONSTANT_COMPARISON test for structure members

A "." dereference to an all uppercase structure member can be incorrectly reported as a CONSTANT_COMPARISON. ie: "if (table[i].PANELID == tempdx)" Fix it by checking for "." before the constant test. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
huntrar · May 21, 2016 · f39e176 · f39e176
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diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -4291,7 +4291,7 @@ sub process {
 			my $comp = $3;
 			my $to = $4;
 			my $newcomp = $comp;
-			if ($lead !~ /$Operators\s*$/ &&
+			if ($lead !~ /(?:$Operators|\.)\s*$/ &&
 			    $to !~ /^(?:Constant|[A-Z_][A-Z0-9_]*)$/ &&
 			    WARN("CONSTANT_COMPARISON",
 				 "Comparisons should place the constant on the right side of the test\n" . $herecurr) &&