The patch titled checkpatch: a modifier is not an identifier at the end of a type has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was checkpatch-a-modifier-is-not-an-identifier-at-the-end-of-a-type.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/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: checkpatch: a modifier is not an identifier at the end of a type From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> We must make sure we do not misrecognise a modifier as an Identifier when trying to match types. Prevent us matching this: void * __ref 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-a-modifier-is-not-an-identifier-at-the-end-of-a-type scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-a-modifier-is-not-an-identifier-at-the-end-of-a-type +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1686,8 +1686,8 @@ sub process { # Modifiers should have spaces. $to =~ s/(\b$Modifier$)/$1 /; - #print "from<$from> to<$to>\n"; - if ($from ne $to) { + #print "from<$from> to<$to> ident<$ident>\n"; + if ($from ne $to && $ident !~ /^$Modifier$/) { ERROR("\"foo${from}bar\" should be \"foo${to}bar\"\n" . $herecurr); } } _ 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 -- 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