On 4 August 2013 19:09, Alex Bligh <a...@alex.org.uk> wrote:
> checkpatch seems to do different things if called with a wildcard than
> just the patch file.

That's obviously a bug...

> This is from patch 7 in a series I'm just about to post. It's
> now claiming it wants no space after the *, but whilst developing
> it it complained the spaces around the * did not balance (as if
> it were multiplication).

...as is this; IME checkpatch often gets confused about
whether it's looking at multiplication or a pointer operator.
I usually just ignore it if it's obviously guessed wrong.

-- PMM

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