checkpatch: do not report nr_static as a static declaration

Ensure we do not report identifiers containing the word static as static
declarations.  For example this should not be reported as an unecessary
assignement of 0:

	long nr_static = 0;

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 906624c0e9e6..a521d493b0c8 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1632,7 +1632,7 @@ sub process {
                                 $herecurr);
                 }
 # check for static initialisers.
-                if ($line =~ /\s*static\s.*=\s*(0|NULL|false)\s*;/) {
+                if ($line =~ /\bstatic\s.*=\s*(0|NULL|false)\s*;/) {
                         ERROR("do not initialise statics to 0 or NULL\n" .
                                 $herecurr);
                 }