checkpatch: type/cast spacing should not check prefix spacing
We should not be complaining about the prefix spacing for types and casts.
We are triggering here because the check for spacing between '*'s is
overly loose. Tighten this up.
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 eefef65..1d7924a 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1665,7 +1665,7 @@
# Should not end with a space.
$to =~ s/\s+$//;
# '*'s should not have spaces between.
- while ($to =~ s/(.)\s\*/$1\*/) {
+ while ($to =~ s/\*\s+\*/\*\*/) {
}
#print "from<$from> to<$to>\n";
@@ -1680,7 +1680,7 @@
# Should not end with a space.
$to =~ s/\s+$//;
# '*'s should not have spaces between.
- while ($to =~ s/(.)\s\*/$1\*/) {
+ while ($to =~ s/\*\s+\*/\*\*/) {
}
# Modifiers should have spaces.
$to =~ s/(\b$Modifier$)/$1 /;
