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authorAndy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>2009-02-27 14:03:07 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-02-27 16:26:22 -0800
commita3340b35787975414d5f6fee83e00640688be2cb (patch)
tree48eadd0bde2f008de17ca1b780e428451b042942 /scripts
parent00ef4ece05096a5c523e265b8ce6627fb5e171c2 (diff)
downloadlinux-a3340b35787975414d5f6fee83e00640688be2cb.tar.bz2
checkpatch: pointer type star may have modifiers following
We may have any modifier following a pointer type star. Handle this: void * __user * __user foo; 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-xscripts/checkpatch.pl4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 92d13710ff52..15a590425129 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1886,11 +1886,11 @@ sub process {
if ($ctx !~ /[WEBC]x./ && $ca !~ /(?:\)|!|~|\*|-|\&|\||\+\+|\-\-|\{)$/) {
ERROR("space required before that '$op' $at\n" . $hereptr);
}
- if ($op eq '*' && $cc =~/\s*const\b/) {
+ if ($op eq '*' && $cc =~/\s*$Modifier\b/) {
# A unary '*' may be const
} elsif ($ctx =~ /.xW/) {
- ERROR("space prohibited after that '$op' $at\n" . $hereptr);
+ ERROR("Aspace prohibited after that '$op' $at\n" . $hereptr);
}
# unary ++ and unary -- are allowed no space on one side.