checkpatch: type/cast spacing should not check prefix spacing

We should not be complaining about the prefix spacing for types and casts.
 We are triggering here because the check for spacing between '*'s is
overly loose.  Tighten this up.

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>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index eefef65fa584..1d7924ad3a34 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1665,7 +1665,7 @@ sub process {
 			# Should not end with a space.
 			$to =~ s/\s+$//;
 			# '*'s should not have spaces between.
-			while ($to =~ s/(.)\s\*/$1\*/) {
+			while ($to =~ s/\*\s+\*/\*\*/) {
 			}
 
 			#print "from<$from> to<$to>\n";
@@ -1680,7 +1680,7 @@ sub process {
 			# Should not end with a space.
 			$to =~ s/\s+$//;
 			# '*'s should not have spaces between.
-			while ($to =~ s/(.)\s\*/$1\*/) {
+			while ($to =~ s/\*\s+\*/\*\*/) {
 			}
 			# Modifiers should have spaces.
 			$to =~ s/(\b$Modifier$)/$1 /;