checkpatch: warn on declaration with storage class not at the beginning

The C99 specification states in section 6.11.5:

The placement of a storage-class specifier other than at the beginning
of the declaration specifiers in a declaration is an obsolescent
feature.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

Author: tklauser

scripts/checkpatch.pl

@@ -2601,6 +2601,11 @@ sub process {
 			CHK("architecture specific defines should be avoided\n" .  $herecurr);
 		}
 
+# Check that the storage class is at the beginning of a declaration
+		if ($line =~ /\b$Storage\b/ && $line !~ /^.\s*$Storage\b/) {
+			WARN("storage class should be at the beginning of the declaration\n" . $herecurr)
+		}
+
 # check the location of the inline attribute, that it is between
 # storage class and type.
 		if ($line =~ /\b$Type\s+$Inline\b/ ||