The patch titled checkpatch: limit sN/uN matches to actual bit sizes has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-limit-sn-un-matches-to-actual-bit-sizes.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/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: checkpatch: limit sN/uN matches to actual bit sizes From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Limit our type matcher to the s/u/le/be etc sizes that actually exist to prevent miss categorising s2 as a type. Fix up the spelling of the error also. 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-limit-sn-un-matches-to-actual-bit-sizes scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-limit-sn-un-matches-to-actual-bit-sizes +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ our $UTF8 = qr { }x; our $typeTypedefs = qr{(?x: - (?:__)?(?:u|s|be|le)(?:\d|\d\d)| + (?:__)?(?:u|s|be|le)(?:8|16|32|64)| atomic_t )}; @@ -1936,7 +1936,7 @@ sub process { # A unary '*' may be const } elsif ($ctx =~ /.xW/) { - ERROR("Aspace prohibited after that '$op' $at\n" . $hereptr); + ERROR("space prohibited after that '$op' $at\n" . $hereptr); } # unary ++ and unary -- are allowed no space on one side. _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are hugetlb-balance-freeing-of-huge-pages-across-nodes.patch hugetlb-use-free_pool_huge_page-to-return-unused-surplus-pages.patch hugetlb-use-free_pool_huge_page-to-return-unused-surplus-pages-fix.patch hugetlb-clean-up-and-update-huge-pages-documentation.patch hugetlb-restore-interleaving-of-bootmem-huge-pages.patch checkpatch-possible-types-else-cannot-start-a-type.patch checkpatch-handle-c99-comments-correctly-performance-issue.patch checkpatch-indent-checks-stop-when-we-run-out-of-continuation-lines.patch checkpatch-make-f-alias-file-add-help-more-verbose-help-message.patch checkpatch-format-strings-should-not-have-brackets-in-macros.patch checkpatch-limit-sn-un-matches-to-actual-bit-sizes.patch checkpatch-version-029.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