checkpatch: change externals to globals

Make error message say 'ERROR: do not initialise globals to 0 or NULL'
rather than 'ERROR: do not initialise externals to 0 or NULL'.  Makes more
sense in the context since there is an extern keyword in C and that is a
global declaration within the scope of the current file.

Signed-off-by: Joe Eloff <kagen101@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index d7a44fd3b2243405cfb5c9a871d305221e6dd2cf..25d716cc44dcfc8d08a4a36378d315e62ca6866e 100755 (executable)
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1791,9 +1791,9 @@ sub process {
                        WARN("EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its function/variable\n" . $herecurr);
                }
 
-# check for external initialisers.
+# check for global initialisers.
                if ($line =~ /^.$Type\s*$Ident\s*(?:\s+$Modifier)*\s*=\s*(0|NULL|false)\s*;/) {
-                       ERROR("do not initialise externals to 0 or NULL\n" .
+                       ERROR("do not initialise globals to 0 or NULL\n" .
                                $herecurr);
                }
 # check for static initialisers.