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