Checkpatch bad Warning (Re: [PATCH] powerpc/kgdb: add kgdb_arch_set/remove_breakpoint())
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Thu Sep 20 23:13:43 AEST 2018
Joe Perches <joe at perches.com> writes:
> On Tue, 2018-09-18 at 09:33 +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>> On the below patch, checkpatch reports
>>
>> WARNING: struct kgdb_arch should normally be const
>> #127: FILE: arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c:480:
>> +struct kgdb_arch arch_kgdb_ops;
>>
>> But when I add 'const', I get compilation failure
>
> So don't add const.
>
> checkpatch is stupid. You are not.
>
> _Always_ take checkpatch bleats with very
> large grains of salt.
>
> Perhaps send a patch to remove kgbd_arch
> from scripts/const_structs.checkpatch as
> it seems not ever to be const.
I think it could/should be const though, it just requires updating all
arches.
cheers
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