Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763692AbYBNKFm (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:05:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753274AbYBNKFe (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:05:34 -0500 Received: from hellhawk.shadowen.org ([80.68.90.175]:4724 "EHLO hellhawk.shadowen.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753159AbYBNKFd (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Feb 2008 05:05:33 -0500 Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:06:32 +0000 From: Andy Whitcroft To: Jan Engelhardt Cc: Marcin Slusarz , LKML Subject: Re: bug in checkpatch (on pointers to typedefs?) Message-ID: <20080214100617.GB10713@shadowen.org> References: <20080210143240.GA13317@joi> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 748 Lines: 21 On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 08:43:58PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Feb 10 2008 15:33, Marcin Slusarz wrote: > >Checkpatch in current mainline outputs following errors: > > > >$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -q --file ./fs/udf/misc.c > >ERROR: need consistent spacing around '*' (ctx:WxV) > >#205: FILE: fs/udf/misc.c:205: > >+ tag *tag_p; > > ^ > > I'd say "don't add any new typedefs" (and perhaps get rid of old ones). It should be doing that at the site of the new typedef :) -apw -- 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/