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authorAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>2008-07-23 21:29:07 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-07-24 10:47:26 -0700
commitd2172eb5bd4b7d06577113ec40635083619ca54a (patch)
tree1a60f2c34a4b5da1d256e1b2f281a994ebe91c15 /scripts
parent7429c6903e3628fc2cfea65ec7e13bac030c7bfe (diff)
checkpatch: possible modifiers are not being correctly matched
Although we are finding the added modifier in the declaration below we are not correctly matching it as a type. Fix the declaration. static void __ref *vmem_alloc_pages(unsigned int order) { } 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>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl7
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 077a2ca3304..53ec3946670 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -168,12 +168,11 @@ our @modifierList = (
);
sub build_types {
- my $mods = "(?: \n" . join("|\n ", @modifierList) . "\n)";
- my $all = "(?: \n" . join("|\n ", @typeList) . "\n)";
+ my $mods = "(?x: \n" . join("|\n ", @modifierList) . "\n)";
+ my $all = "(?x: \n" . join("|\n ", @typeList) . "\n)";
$Modifier = qr{(?:$Attribute|$Sparse|$mods)};
$NonptrType = qr{
- (?:const\s+)?
- (?:$mods\s+)?
+ (?:$Modifier\s+|const\s+)*
(?:
(?:typeof|__typeof__)\s*\(\s*\**\s*$Ident\s*\)|
(?:${all}\b)