> would you mind looking at why
> it gives a false positive for spaces around '*' on my recent patch at
> http://mid.gmane.org/20130901234251.GB25057@leaf ? It appears to
> mistake the '*' of a pointer for a multiply.
Looks like checkpatch thinks this should be a multiplication.
Try this:
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 9bb056c..e421b5e 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3005,7 +3005,7 @@ sub process {
$op eq '*' or $op eq '/' or
$op eq '%')
{
- if ($ctx =~ /Wx[^WCE]|[^WCE]xW/) {
+ if ($ctx =~ /Wx[^WCEB]|[^WCE]xW/) {
if (ERROR("SPACING",
"need consistent
spacing around '$op' $at\n" . $hereptr)) {
$good =
rtrim($fix_elements[$n]) . " " . trim($fix_elements[$n + 1]) . " ";
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