The patch titled
checkpatch: correctly handle type spacing in the face of modifiers
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
checkpatch-correctly-handle-type-spacing-in-the-face-of-modifiers.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
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Subject: checkpatch: correctly handle type spacing in the face of modifiers
From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
We need to handle interspersed modifiers in the middle of pointer types,
for example:
void * __user * __user bar;
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-correctly-handle-type-spacing-in-the-face-of-modifiers scripts/checkpatch.pl
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-correctly-handle-type-spacing-in-the-face-of-modifiers
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1658,7 +1658,7 @@ sub process {
# * goes on variable not on type
# (char*[ const])
- if ($line =~ m{\($NonptrType(\s*\*[\s\*]*(?:$Modifier\s*)*)\)}) {
+ if ($line =~ m{\($NonptrType(\s*(?:$Modifier\b\s*|\*\s*)+)\)}) {
my ($from, $to) = ($1, $1);
# Should start with a space.
@@ -1673,7 +1673,7 @@ sub process {
if ($from ne $to) {
ERROR("\"(foo$from)\" should be \"(foo$to)\"\n" . $herecurr);
}
- } elsif ($line =~ m{\b$NonptrType(\s*\*[\s\*]*(?:$Modifier\s*)?)($Ident)}) {
+ } elsif ($line =~ m{\b$NonptrType(\s*(?:$Modifier\b\s*|\*\s*)+)($Ident)}) {
my ($from, $to, $ident) = ($1, $1, $2);
# Should start with a space.
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
linux-next.patch
mmc-add-modalias-linkage-for-mmc-sd-devices.patch
psmouse-synaptics-ensure-we-reset-the-device-on-resume.patch
psmouse-synaptics-ensure-we-reset-the-device-on-resume-fix.patch
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