From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:29:08 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: checkpatch: handle return types of pointers to functions
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~19293
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8ea3eb9a20f39d5afa52900a34092b4b5f6b55cb;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

checkpatch: handle return types of pointers to functions

Make sure we correctly mark the return type of the pointer to a function
declaration.

    const void *(*sb_tag)(struct sysfs_tag_info *info);

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 775f2b146aa1..6d07b6778c91 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ sub annotate_values {
 				$av_preprocessor = 0;
 			}
 
-		} elsif ($cur =~ /^($Type)\s*(?:$Ident|,|\))/) {
+		} elsif ($cur =~ /^($Type)\s*(?:$Ident|,|\)|\()/) {
 			print "DECLARE($1)\n" if ($dbg_values > 1);
 			$type = 'T';