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| author | Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> | 2009-02-27 14:03:07 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-02-27 16:26:21 -0800 |
| commit | 00ef4ece05096a5c523e265b8ce6627fb5e171c2 (patch) | |
| tree | 13e3db3b95e04ed3fd53dae599a947c87e87c799 /scripts | |
| parent | e2f7aa4b8bc811ebf8afbdf423caf90a5a03cb08 (diff) | |
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checkpatch: correctly handle type spacing in the face of modifiers
We need to handle interspersed modifiers in the middle of pointer types,
for example:
void * __user * __user bar;
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 5ffc940399be..92d13710ff52 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1658,7 +1658,7 @@ sub process { # * goes on variable not on type # (char*[ const]) - if ($line =~ m{\($NonptrType(\s*\*[\s\*]*(?:$Modifier\s*)*)\)}) { + if ($line =~ m{\($NonptrType(\s*(?:$Modifier\b\s*|\*\s*)+)\)}) { my ($from, $to) = ($1, $1); # Should start with a space. @@ -1673,7 +1673,7 @@ sub process { if ($from ne $to) { ERROR("\"(foo$from)\" should be \"(foo$to)\"\n" . $herecurr); } - } elsif ($line =~ m{\b$NonptrType(\s*\*[\s\*]*(?:$Modifier\s*)?)($Ident)}) { + } elsif ($line =~ m{\b$NonptrType(\s*(?:$Modifier\b\s*|\*\s*)+)($Ident)}) { my ($from, $to, $ident) = ($1, $1, $2); # Should start with a space. |