linux-kernel - Re: bug in checkpatch (on pointers to typedefs?)

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Message-ID: <20080214100617.GB10713@shadowen.org>
Date:	Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:06:32 +0000
From:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
Cc:	Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bug in checkpatch (on pointers to typedefs?)

On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 08:43:58PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> On Feb 10 2008 15:33, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
> >Checkpatch in current mainline outputs following errors:
> >
> >$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -q --file ./fs/udf/misc.c
> >ERROR: need consistent spacing around '*' (ctx:WxV)
> >#205: FILE: fs/udf/misc.c:205:
> >+       tag *tag_p;
> >            ^
> 
> I'd say "don't add any new typedefs" (and perhaps get rid of old ones).

It should be doing that at the site of the new typedef :)

-apw
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