checkpatch: add of_device_id to structs that should be const

Uses of struct of_device_id are most commonly const.

Suggest using it as such.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 9c720e1261e9..d12435992dea 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -5223,8 +5223,9 @@ sub process {
                              "please use device_initcall() or more appropriate function instead of __initcall() (see include/linux/init.h)\n" . $herecurr);
                 }
 
-# check for various ops structs, ensure they are const.
-                my $struct_ops = qr{acpi_dock_ops|
+# check for various structs that are normally const (ops, kgdb, device_tree)
+                my $const_structs = qr{
+                                acpi_dock_ops|
                                 address_space_operations|
                                 backlight_ops|
                                 block_device_operations|
@@ -5247,6 +5248,7 @@ sub process {
                                 mtrr_ops|
                                 neigh_ops|
                                 nlmsvc_binding|
+                                of_device_id|
                                 pci_raw_ops|
                                 pipe_buf_operations|
                                 platform_hibernation_ops|
@@ -5262,7 +5264,7 @@ sub process {
                                 usb_mon_operations|
                                 wd_ops}x;
                 if ($line !~ /\bconst\b/ &&
-                    $line =~ /\bstruct\s+($struct_ops)\b/) {
+                    $line =~ /\bstruct\s+($const_structs)\b/) {
                         WARN("CONST_STRUCT",
                              "struct $1 should normally be const\n" .
                                 $herecurr);