Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752922AbYKLJTN (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:19:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751537AbYKLJS7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:18:59 -0500 Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com ([209.85.198.227]:36374 "EHLO rv-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751497AbYKLJS6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Nov 2008 04:18:58 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=c5Y9Qdlhjd+LdOjfd8DfRpgwlYq0yXyzbDEfEwXjWg9dzp9n8RNyOE+vyP9ymyr2JX BgoMcs4LaorYVuUSrvH8enfbRSELnJZpt3kd7U02fXkGR0Eviio+LJpiIgpTx7O3uMMq RczDrMTIFtC7rMQ67NwQd7W2cyIpF7U8Wx4Ao= Message-ID: <2f3bf9a60811120118n6c16760eke1f6254b278e5b5c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:18:55 +0200 From: "Dotan Barak" To: andyw@uk.ibm.com Subject: false error in checkpatch version 0.24 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 565 Lines: 19 Hi. When i execute checkpatch version 0.24 of a file which contains the following line: return a * b; It complains with the following error message: ERROR: space prohibited after that '*' (ctx:WxW). I think that this may be a false error. (maybe it fail on a rule which handles pointers declaration). Thanks Dotan -- 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/