linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.08

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Date:	Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:53:36 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	"Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>
cc:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Joel Schopp <jschopp@...tin.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.08


On Jul 23 2007 16:36, Kok, Auke wrote:
>
> this somehow seems to match something completely non-related (a function
> pointer declaration case):
>
> ERROR: no space between function name and open parenthesis '('
> #7278: FILE: drivers/net/e1000e/hw.h:434:
> +       bool (*check_mng_mode)(struct e1000_hw *);
>
> even if I put a space between ")(", it still complains.

[assumed] majority of kernel code uses ")(" instead of ")\s+(",
so the warning seems bogus. And it even gets nitpicky.



	Jan
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