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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2014-08-07 01:10:50 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-08-07 03:01:28 +0200
commit1574a29f8e769998fe3e55eb6030dc61e3d09ccd (patch)
tree4826d2385418e45f61a6d2003097697f63352a27 /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parentcheckpatch: warn on unnecessary parentheses around references of foo->bar (diff)
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checkpatch: allow multiple const * types
checkpatch's $Type variable does not match declarations of multiple const * types. This can produce false positives for things like: $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f drivers/staging/comedi/comedidev.h WARNING: Missing a blank line after declarations #60: FILE: drivers/staging/comedi/comedidev.h:60: + const struct comedi_lrange *range_table; + const struct comedi_lrange *const *range_table_list; Fix the $Type variable to support matching multiple "* const" uses. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Reported-by: Hartley Sweeten <HartleyS@visionengravers.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 9a89a0609bac..57a11d7ee841 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ sub build_types {
}x;
$Type = qr{
$NonptrType
- (?:(?:\s|\*|\[\])+\s*const|(?:\s|\*|\[\])+|(?:\s*\[\s*\])+)?
+ (?:(?:\s|\*|\[\])+\s*const|(?:\s|\*\s*(?:const\s*)?|\[\])+|(?:\s*\[\s*\])+)?
(?:\s+$Inline|\s+$Modifier)*
}x;
$Declare = qr{(?:$Storage\s+(?:$Inline\s+)?)?$Type};