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checkpatch: fix false positive on __initconst

checkpatch falsely complained about '__initconst' because it thought the
'const' needed a space before.  Fix this by changing the list of
attributes:

- add '__initconst'
- force plain 'init' to contain a word-boundary at the end

Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wolfram Sang 15 years ago
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      scripts/checkpatch.pl

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scripts/checkpatch.pl

@@ -145,11 +145,14 @@ our $Sparse	= qr{
 			__kprobes|
 			__ref
 		}x;
+
+# Notes to $Attribute:
+# We need \b after 'init' otherwise 'initconst' will cause a false positive in a check
 our $Attribute	= qr{
 			const|
 			__read_mostly|
 			__kprobes|
-			__(?:mem|cpu|dev|)(?:initdata|init)|
+			__(?:mem|cpu|dev|)(?:initdata|initconst|init\b)|
 			____cacheline_aligned|
 			____cacheline_aligned_in_smp|
 			____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp|