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 @@ -4089,7 +4089,7 @@ 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) { _ -- 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