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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2014-08-06 16:10:52 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-08-06 18:01:28 -0700
commitf27c95db1176b41c6c87d9d3480d15efbca8f3ff (patch)
treecee0d9465e848c59d8b290b70a9b16e39d5d3b4c /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parentcheckpatch: allow multiple const * types (diff)
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checkpatch: improve "no space after cast" test
This --strict test previously worked only for what appeared to be cast to pointer types. Make it work for all casts. Also, there's no reason to show the previous line for this type of message, so don't. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 57a11d7ee841..b351805149a5 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2260,12 +2260,12 @@ sub process {
}
}
- if ($line =~ /^\+.*\*[ \t]*\)[ \t]+(?!$Assignment|$Arithmetic)/) {
+ if ($line =~ /^\+.*\(\s*$Type\s*\)[ \t]+(?!$Assignment|$Arithmetic)/) {
if (CHK("SPACING",
- "No space is necessary after a cast\n" . $hereprev) &&
+ "No space is necessary after a cast\n" . $herecurr) &&
$fix) {
$fixed[$linenr - 1] =~
- s/^(\+.*\*[ \t]*\))[ \t]+/$1/;
+ s/(\(\s*$Type\s*\))[ \t]+/$1/;
}
}