linux-kernel - RE: checkpatch.pl false positive

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Date:	Tue, 22 Jul 2014 19:46:22 +0000
From:	Hartley Sweeten <HartleyS@...ionengravers.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
CC:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: checkpatch.pl false positive

On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 12:23 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-07-22 at 17:30 +0000, Hartley Sweeten wrote:
>> Joe,
>> 
>> I think this is a false positive, at least the check message appears
>> incorrect:
>> 
>> CHECK: No space is necessary after a cast
>> #66: FILE: arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/include/mach/platform.h:66:
>> +static inline int crunch_init(void) { return 0; }
>
> Yeah, it's a false positive introduced by -next
> commit 89da401f6cff ("checkpatch: improve "no space after cast" test")
>
> Try this?
> ---
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 2258497..644c2d5 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
>+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @ @ -2418,7 +2418,7 @@ sub process {
>  			}
>  		}
>  
> -		if ($line =~ /^\+.*\(\s*$Type\s*\)[ \t]+(?!$Assignment|$Arithmetic)/) {
> +		if ($line =~ /^\+.*\(\s*$Type\s*\)[ \t]+(?!$Assignment|$Arithmetic|{)/) {
> 			if (CHK("SPACING",
> 				"No space is necessary after a cast\n" . $herecurr) &&
>  			    $fix) {

That fixed it.

Thanks,
Hartley


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