From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:29:08 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: checkpatch: possible types -- known modifiers cannot be types
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.27-rc1~697
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0221f55c142b0ac8baf6f0b6c4e1ec89f0c98e96;p=linux-2.6

checkpatch: possible types -- known modifiers cannot be types

Ensure we do not inadvertantly load known modifiers up as possible types.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 6d07b6778c..9c209165f2 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -847,7 +847,7 @@ sub possible {
 	my ($possible, $line) = @_;
 
 	print "CHECK<$possible> ($line)\n" if ($dbg_possible > 1);
-	if ($possible !~ /^(?:$Storage|$Type|DEFINE_\S+)$/ &&
+	if ($possible !~ /^(?:$Modifier|$Storage|$Type|DEFINE_\S+)$/ &&
 	    $possible ne 'goto' && $possible ne 'return' &&
 	    $possible ne 'case' && $possible ne 'else' &&
 	    $possible ne 'asm' && $possible ne '__asm__' &&