Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: support function pointers for unnamed function definition arguments

From: Joe Perches
Date: Fri Sep 15 2017 - 02:01:17 EST


On Thu, 2017-09-14 at 19:52 +0800, Miles Chen wrote:
> Current unnamed function definition argument does not include function
> pointer cases and it reports something like:
>
> WARNING: function definition argument 'void' should also have an identifier name
> +unsigned int (*dummy)(void);
>
> Support function pointers for unnamed function arguments
>
> Signed-off-by: Miles Chen <miles.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index dd2c262..03eb255 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -5957,7 +5957,7 @@ sub process {
>
> # check for function declarations that have arguments without identifier names
> if (defined $stat &&
> - $stat =~ /^.\s*(?:extern\s+)?$Type\s*$Ident\s*\(\s*([^{]+)\s*\)\s*;/s &&
> + $stat =~ /^.\s*(?:extern\s+)?$Type\s*(?:$Ident|\(\s*\*\s*$Ident\s*\))\s*\(\s*([^{]+)\s*\)\s*;/s &&
> $1 ne "void") {
> my $args = trim($1);
> while ($args =~ m/\s*($Type\s*(?:$Ident|\(\s*\*\s*$Ident?\s*\)\s*$balanced_parens)?)/g) {