A common way of expressing 'raise to the power of' when authoring comments uses **. This is currently getting caught by the pointer spacing warning. So, catch it here.
Reported-by: Lance Richardson <lrich...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Aaron Conole <acon...@redhat.com> --- utilities/checkpatch.py | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/utilities/checkpatch.py b/utilities/checkpatch.py index acf6f15..f22ceac 100755 --- a/utilities/checkpatch.py +++ b/utilities/checkpatch.py @@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ __regex_is_for_if_single_line_bracket = \ re.compile(r'^ +(if|for|while) \(.*\)') __regex_ends_with_bracket = \ re.compile(r'[^\s]\) {(\s+/\*[\s\Sa-zA-Z0-9\.,\?\*/+-]*)?$') -__regex_ptr_declaration_missing_whitespace = re.compile(r'[a-zA-Z0-9]\*') +__regex_ptr_declaration_missing_whitespace = re.compile(r'[a-zA-Z0-9]\*[^*]') skip_leading_whitespace_check = False skip_trailing_whitespace_check = False -- 2.9.3 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list d...@openvswitch.org https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-dev