linux-kernel - Re: error from checkpatch.pl version 0.10

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0709201916400.17093@enigma.security.iitk.ac.in>
Date:	Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:19:59 +0530 (IST)
From:	Satyam Sharma <satyam@...radead.org>
To:	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
Subject: Re: error from checkpatch.pl version 0.10

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> 
> I checked my patch using checkpatch.pl version 0.10
> and I got the following error.
> 
>   ERROR: need consistent spacing around '*' (ctx:WxV)
>   #2334: FILE: security/tomoyo/common.c:2306:
>   +static unsigned int tmy_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait)
>                                                               ^

Looks like a checkpatch.pl bug to me -- that was nothing to warn about.

> What action should I take?
> Ignore this error because "poll_table" is used everywhere?
> Replace "poll_table" with "struct poll_table_struct" according to
> definition of "poll_table"?

Yeah, this would be better to do anyway (and rename poll_table_struct
to just poll_table).

>   typedef struct poll_table_struct {
>           poll_queue_proc qproc;
>   } poll_table;

So:

	struct poll_table {
		poll_queue_proc qproc;
	};

In general the kernel's codingstyle consensus is to avoid adding typedefs.
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