Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760178AbXJ3Tcr (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:32:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758650AbXJ3T1v (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:27:51 -0400 Received: from de01egw02.freescale.net ([192.88.165.103]:62707 "EHLO de01egw02.freescale.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758467AbXJ3T1u (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:27:50 -0400 Message-ID: <47278591.90305@freescale.com> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 14:27:13 -0500 From: Timur Tabi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070802 SeaMonkey/1.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: apw@shadowen.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: checkpatch bug: space between left parenthesis and asterisk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 830 Lines: 22 I'm running checkpatch.pl (dated 10/17), and it complains about this line: crc = __be32_to_cpu(* ((__be32 *) ((void *) firmware + calc_size))); the message I get is: ERROR: need space before that '*' (ctx:BxW) #721: FILE: arch/powerpc/sysdev/qe_lib/qe.c:527: + crc = __be32_to_cpu(* ((__be32 *) ((void *) firmware + calc_size))); ^ so I add a space, and now I get this: ERROR: no space after that open parenthesis '(' #721: FILE: arch/powerpc/sysdev/qe_lib/qe.c:527: + crc = __be32_to_cpu( * ((__be32 *) ((void *) firmware + calc_size))); - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/