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