The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: add [] to type extensions has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-add-to-type-extensions.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 *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: add [] to type extensions Add [] to a type extensions. Fixes false positives on: .attrs = (struct attribute *[]) { Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: 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-add-to-type-extensions scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-add-to-type-extensions +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ sub build_types { }x; $Type = qr{ $NonptrType - (?:[\s\*]+\s*const|[\s\*]+|(?:\s*\[\s*\])+)? + (?:(?:\s|\*|\[\])+\s*const|(?:\s|\*|\[\])+|(?:\s*\[\s*\])+)? (?:\s+$Inline|\s+$Modifier)* }x; $Declare = qr{(?:$Storage\s+)?$Type}; _ Subject: Subject: checkpatch: add [] to type extensions Patches currently in -mm which might be from apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are checkpatchpl-be-silent-when-q-and-ignore-is-given.patch checkpatch-catch-usage-when-not-at-the-beginning-of-defination.patch checkpatch-allow-simple-character-constants-in-defines.patch checkpatch-handle-string-concatenation-in-simple-defines.patch checkpatch-high-precidence-operators-do-not-require-additional-parentheses-in-defines.patch checkpatch-add-to-type-extensions.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