Re: False positive in checkpatch

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue Sep 24 2013 - 10:03:49 EST


On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 09:21:07PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> 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?

That does it, thank you! And it does look like this patch was directed
precisely at this patch. ;-)

Thanx, Paul

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