linux-kernel - [BUG ?] checkpatch.pl rejects as error something I think it ought to be allow

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Date:	Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:28:02 -0800
From:	Corey Ashford <cjashfor@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
Subject: [BUG ?] checkpatch.pl rejects as error something I think it ought
 to be allow

Hi,

I have a piece of code where I have two constants defined as follows:

	static const unsigned long polling_interval_sec = 1;
	static const unsigned long polling_interval_ns = 0;

Now, it's clear to me that I want these two values to have the keywords 
const and static.  I could use a #define here, but const static seemed 
cleaner to me.

When I run checkpatch.pl across this code, I get this error:

ERROR: do not initialise statics to 0 or NULL.

I think the problem here is that another case is needed for "static 
const" that does allow 0.

What do you think?

Thanks for your consideration,

- Corey
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