linux-kernel - Re: checkpatch warning of struct indentation

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Date:	Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:09:00 +0100
From:	"Frédéric Weisbecker" <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	"Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	"Andy Whitcroft" <apw@...onical.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: checkpatch warning of struct indentation

2009/1/12 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm now seeing the following warnings from checkpatch:
>
> #325: FILE: kernel/trace/trace_stat.c:21:
> +       void                    *stat;
>
> ERROR: "foo     *bar" should be "foo *bar"
> #334: FILE: kernel/trace/trace_stat.c:27:
> +       struct tracer_stat      *ts;
>
> ERROR: "foo             *bar" should be "foo    *bar"
> #337: FILE: kernel/trace/trace_stat.c:30:
> +       struct dentry           *file;


Oh my patch :-)
Yeah I had the same errors when I checked it. I ignored them because
I because I remembered checkpatch.pl didn't warn about such things before.
And it seems to warn about such statements since very recently...


> This is for:
>
> struct tracer_stat_session {
>        struct list_head        session_list;
>        struct tracer_stat      *ts;
>        struct list_head        stat_list;
>        struct mutex            stat_mutex;
>        struct dentry           *file;
> };
>
> Which looks a hell of a lot better than:
>
> struct tracer_stat_session {
>        struct list_head session_list;
>        struct tracer_stat *ts;
>        struct list_head stat_list;
>        struct mutex stat_mutex;
>        struct dentry *file;
> };
>
> We probably do not want to warn on such things.
>
> -- Steve
>
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