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authorAndy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>2009-01-15 13:51:05 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-01-15 16:39:38 -0800
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl4
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 /;