Message-ID: <1379996467.3575.67.camel@joe-AO722>
Subject: Re: False positive in checkpatch
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: apw@canonical.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 21:21:07 -0700
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On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 15:59 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> The checkpatch.pl script complains as follows:
> 
> ERROR: need consistent spacing around '*' (ctx:WxB)
> #57: FILE: include/linux/rcupdate.h:564:
> +		ACCESS_ONCE(p) = (typeof(*(v)) __force space *)(v); \
> 
> Of course, the two uses of '*' are doing different things, so it should
> be OK for the spacing to be different.
> 
> Could you please fix this?
> 
> 							Thanx, Paul
> 

Hi Paul.

Try this patch: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/2/428

Andy?  Can you verify this suggested patch please?

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