The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: allow space between colon and bracket has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-allow-space-between-colon-and-bracket.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-allow-space-between-colon-and-bracket.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-allow-space-between-colon-and-bracket.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@xxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: allow space between colon and bracket Allow a space between a colon and subsequent opening bracket. This sequence may occur in inline assembler statements like asm( "ldr %[out], [%[in]]\n\t" : [out] "=r" (ret) : [in] "r" (addr) ); Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180403191655.23700-1-xypron.glpk@xxxxxx Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@xxxxxx> Acked-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-allow-space-between-colon-and-bracket scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-allow-space-between-colon-and-bracket +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -4076,7 +4076,7 @@ sub process { my ($where, $prefix) = ($-[1], $1); if ($prefix !~ /$Type\s+$/ && ($where != 0 || $prefix !~ /^.\s+$/) && - $prefix !~ /[{,]\s+$/) { + $prefix !~ /[{,:]\s+$/) { if (ERROR("BRACKET_SPACE", "space prohibited before open square bracket '['\n" . $herecurr) && $fix) { _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from xypron.glpk@xxxxxx are checkpatch-allow-space-between-colon-and-bracket.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