The patch titled
Subject: checkpatch: warn on unnecessary parentheses around references of foo->bar
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
checkpatch-warn-on-unnecessary-parentheses-around-references-of-foo-bar.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: checkpatch: warn on unnecessary parentheses around references of foo->bar
Parentheses around &(foo->bar) and *(foo->bar) are unnecessary. Emit a
--strict only message on these uses.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-warn-on-unnecessary-parentheses-around-references-of-foo-bar scripts/checkpatch.pl
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-warn-on-unnecessary-parentheses-around-references-of-foo-bar
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3491,6 +3491,14 @@ sub process {
}
}
+# check unnecessary parentheses around addressof/dereference single $Lvals
+# ie: &(foo->bar) should be &foo->bar and *(foo->bar) should be *foo->bar
+
+ while ($line =~ /(?:[^&]&\s*|\*)\(\s*($Ident\s*(?:$Member\s*)+)\s*\)/g) {
+ CHK("UNNECESSARY_PARENTHESES",
+ "Unnecessary parentheses around $1\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
+
#goto labels aren't indented, allow a single space however
if ($line=~/^.\s+[A-Za-z\d_]+:(?![0-9]+)/ and
!($line=~/^. [A-Za-z\d_]+:/) and !($line=~/^.\s+default:/)) {
_
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ipw2100-use-pci_zalloc_consistent.patch
mwl8k-use-pci_zalloc_consistent.patch
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scsi-use-pci_zalloc_consistent.patch
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