From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:03:08 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: checkpatch: a modifier is not an identifier at the end of a type
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=667026e7b082ad59eb7194d6b5d159ed6c340e05;p=linux-beck.git

checkpatch: a modifier is not an identifier at the end of a type

We must make sure we do not misrecognise a modifier as an Identifier
when trying to match types.  Prevent us matching this:

	void * __ref

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 15a590425129..b9e9ee1315b7 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1686,8 +1686,8 @@ sub process {
 			# Modifiers should have spaces.
 			$to =~ s/(\b$Modifier$)/$1 /;
 
-			#print "from<$from> to<$to>\n";
-			if ($from ne $to) {
+			#print "from<$from> to<$to> ident<$ident>\n";
+			if ($from ne $to && $ident !~ /^$Modifier$/) {
 				ERROR("\"foo${from}bar\" should be \"foo${to}bar\"\n" .  $herecurr);
 			}
 		}