The patch titled
Subject: checkpatch: improve 'bare use of' signed/unsigned types warning
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
checkpatch-improve-bare-use-of-signed-unsigned-types-warning.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-improve-bare-use-of-signed-unsigned-types-warning.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-improve-bare-use-of-signed-unsigned-types-warning.patch
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From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: checkpatch: improve 'bare use of' signed/unsigned types warning
Fix false positive warning of identifiers ending in signed with an =
assignment of WARNING: Prefer 'signed int' to bare use of 'signed'.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/6a0e24c3e9102337528ecfcbbe91a0eb5b4820ed.1469529497.git.joe@xxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Alan Douglas <alanjhd@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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-bare-use-of-signed-unsigned-types-warning scripts/checkpatch.pl
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-improve-bare-use-of-signed-unsigned-types-warning
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3348,7 +3348,7 @@ sub process {
next if ($line =~ /^[^\+]/);
# check for declarations of signed or unsigned without int
- while ($line =~ m{($Declare)\s*(?!char\b|short\b|int\b|long\b)\s*($Ident)?\s*[=,;\[\)\(]}g) {
+ while ($line =~ m{\b($Declare)\s*(?!char\b|short\b|int\b|long\b)\s*($Ident)?\s*[=,;\[\)\(]}g) {
my $type = $1;
my $var = $2;
$var = "" if (!defined $var);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are
printk-create-pr_level-functions.patch
checkpatch-skip-long-lines-that-use-an-efi_guid-macro.patch
checkpatch-allow-c99-style-comments.patch
checkpatch-yet-another-commit-id-improvement.patch
checkpatch-improve-bare-use-of-signed-unsigned-types-warning.patch
rapidio-remove-unnecessary-0x-prefixes-before-%pa-extension-uses.patch
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