From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:03:07 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: checkpatch: pointer type star may have modifiers following
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~15418
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a3340b35787975414d5f6fee83e00640688be2cb;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

checkpatch: pointer type star may have modifiers following

We may have any modifier following a pointer type star.  Handle this:

	void * __user * __user foo;

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
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 92d13710ff52..15a590425129 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1886,11 +1886,11 @@ sub process {
 					if ($ctx !~ /[WEBC]x./ && $ca !~ /(?:\)|!|~|\*|-|\&|\||\+\+|\-\-|\{)$/) {
 						ERROR("space required before that '$op' $at\n" . $hereptr);
 					}
-					if ($op eq '*' && $cc =~/\s*const\b/) {
+					if ($op eq '*' && $cc =~/\s*$Modifier\b/) {
 						# A unary '*' may be const
 
 					} elsif ($ctx =~ /.xW/) {
-						ERROR("space prohibited after that '$op' $at\n" . $hereptr);
+						ERROR("Aspace prohibited after that '$op' $at\n" . $hereptr);
 					}
 
 				# unary ++ and unary -- are allowed no space on one side.