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

[Joe Perches]

On Tue, 2019-07-02 at 15:30 +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
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> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
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> @@ -3864,6 +3864,7 @@ sub process {
>  				^.DEFINE_$Ident\(\Q$name\E\)|
>  				^.DECLARE_$Ident\(\Q$name\E\)|
>  				^.LIST_HEAD\(\Q$name\E\)|
> +				^.$Ident._NOTIFIER_HEAD\(\Q$name\E\)|

I think you want "${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) {