diff --git a/scripts/atomic/atomic-tbl.sh b/scripts/atomic/atomic-tbl.sh
index 608ff39ebd8cde..850dd0fa7da325 100755
--- a/scripts/atomic/atomic-tbl.sh
+++ b/scripts/atomic/atomic-tbl.sh
@@ -3,6 +3,10 @@
 # helpers for dealing with atomics.tbl
 
 #meta_in(meta, match)
+do_nothing() {
+    echo "Hello, world!"
+}
+
 meta_in()
 {
 	case "$1" in