From: Andy Whitcroft Subject: Re: Checkpatch complaining about spaces around * used as arithmetic operator Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:50:01 +0000 Message-ID: <20101117205001.GC6038@shadowen.org> References: <8A0E4C92AE2D6D40AF99653191DA323161417367B8@rrsmsx501.amr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: "linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org" To: "Allyn, Mark A" Return-path: Received: from adelie.canonical.com ([91.189.90.139]:34338 "EHLO adelie.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932364Ab0KQUuH (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:50:07 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8A0E4C92AE2D6D40AF99653191DA323161417367B8@rrsmsx501.amr.corp.intel.com> Sender: linux-crypto-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 01:44:03PM -0700, Allyn, Mark A wrote: > Hello: > > I had checkpatch complain about spaces around the * symbol when it is used as an arithmetic operator (multiply) and not an address indicator. > > This did not happen before; it's happening in the current next kernel. > > Are there intended changes to checkpatch to require no spaces after the * even for multiply? No that would be incorrect. Could you send me the example which is triggering it so I can try and determine why. -apw