On Mon, 2022-09-05 at 11:49 +0300, Jani Nikula wrote: > On Mon, 05 Sep 2022, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Mon, 05 Sep 2022, Jingyu Wang <jingyuwang_vip@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Fix everything checkpatch.pl complained about in drm_print.h > > [...] > > > > static inline void > > > -drm_vprintf(struct drm_printer *p, const char *fmt, va_list *va) > > > +drm_vprintf(struct drm_printer *p, const char *fmt, va_list * va) > > > > Checkpatch is just confused here. Look at all the other params, why > > would you add an extra space here? > > Joe, can you help me out here please, I can't figure out why checkpatch > is complaining here: > > include/drm/drm_print.h:106: CHECK:SPACING: spaces preferred around that '*' (ctx:WxV) > #106: FILE: include/drm/drm_print.h:106: > +drm_vprintf(struct drm_printer *p, const char *fmt, va_list *va) checkpatch doesn't know what a va_list is. It's similar to the FILE typedef that also causes this output. A recent link to add an exception for 'FILE' to checkpatch: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220902111923.1488671-1-mic@xxxxxxxxxxx/