From 667026e7b082ad59eb7194d6b5d159ed6c340e05 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andy Whitcroft Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:03:08 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: a modifier is not an identifier at the end of a type We must make sure we do not misrecognise a modifier as an Identifier when trying to match types. Prevent us matching this: void * __ref Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 15a590425129..b9e9ee1315b7 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1686,8 +1686,8 @@ sub process { # Modifiers should have spaces. $to =~ s/(\b$Modifier$)/$1 /; - #print "from<$from> to<$to>\n"; - if ($from ne $to) { + #print "from<$from> to<$to> ident<$ident>\n"; + if ($from ne $to && $ident !~ /^$Modifier$/) { ERROR("\"foo${from}bar\" should be \"foo${to}bar\"\n" . $herecurr); } }