Allow a space between a colon and subsequent opening bracket.
This sequence may occur in inline assembler statements like

        asm(
                "ldr %[out], [%[in]]\n\t"
                : [out] "=r" (ret)
                : [in] "r" (addr)
        );

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.g...@gmx.de>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index d2464002bb40..2cbab86e6d4c 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -4083,7 +4083,7 @@ sub process {
                        my ($where, $prefix) = ($-[1], $1);
                        if ($prefix !~ /$Type\s+$/ &&
                            ($where != 0 || $prefix !~ /^.\s+$/) &&
-                           $prefix !~ /[{,]\s+$/) {
+                           $prefix !~ /[{,:]\s+$/) {
                                if (ERROR("BRACKET_SPACE",
                                          "space prohibited before open square 
bracket '['\n" . $herecurr) &&
                                    $fix) {
-- 
2.16.3

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