The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: improve "no space necessary after cast" test has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was checkpatch-improve-no-space-necessary-after-cast-test.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: improve "no space necessary after cast" test Code like: if (a < sizeof(<type>) && and { .len = sizeof(<type>) }, incorrectly emits that warning, so add more exceptions to avoid the warning. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-improve-no-space-necessary-after-cast-test scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-improve-no-space-necessary-after-cast-test +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2541,7 +2541,7 @@ sub process { } } - if ($line =~ /^\+.*(\w+\s*)?\(\s*$Type\s*\)[ \t]+(?!$Assignment|$Arithmetic|[,;\({\[\<\>])/ && + if ($line =~ /^\+.*(\w+\s*)?\(\s*$Type\s*\)[ \t]+(?!$Assignment|$Arithmetic|[,;:\?\(\{\}\[\<\>]|&&|\|\||\\$)/ && (!defined($1) || $1 !~ /sizeof\s*/)) { if (CHK("SPACING", "No space is necessary after a cast\n" . $herecurr) && _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch mm-utilc-add-kstrimdup.patch fs-ufs-superc-remove-unnecessary-casting.patch linux-next.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html