From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:29:12 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: checkpatch: types cannot start mid word for pointer tests
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.27-rc1~692
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=234fff6515a11cf3e67c793146689da426787fea;p=linux-2.6

checkpatch: types cannot start mid word for pointer tests

When checking spacing for pointer checks the type cannot start in the
middle of a word, ie. this is not 'int * bar':

	x = fooint * bar;

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 96a762be57..022ee557b6 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1435,11 +1435,11 @@ sub process {
 			ERROR("\"(foo $1 )\" should be \"(foo $1)\"\n" .
 				$herecurr);
 
-		} elsif ($line =~ m{$NonptrType(\*+)(?:\s+(?:$Attribute|$Sparse))?\s+[A-Za-z\d_]+}) {
+		} elsif ($line =~ m{\b$NonptrType(\*+)(?:\s+(?:$Attribute|$Sparse))?\s+[A-Za-z\d_]+}) {
 			ERROR("\"foo$1 bar\" should be \"foo $1bar\"\n" .
 				$herecurr);
 
-		} elsif ($line =~ m{$NonptrType\s+(\*+)(?!\s+(?:$Attribute|$Sparse))\s+[A-Za-z\d_]+}) {
+		} elsif ($line =~ m{\b$NonptrType\s+(\*+)(?!\s+(?:$Attribute|$Sparse))\s+[A-Za-z\d_]+}) {
 			ERROR("\"foo $1 bar\" should be \"foo $1bar\"\n" .
 				$herecurr);
 		}