On 14/09/2017 11:12, Greg Kurz wrote: > The script doesn't know about all possible types and learn them as > it parses the code. If it reaches a line with a type cast but the > type isn't known yet, it is misinterpreted as an identifier. > > For example the following line: > > foo = (hwaddr) -1; > > results in the following false-positive to be reported: > > ERROR: spaces required around that '-' (ctx:VxV) > > Let's add this standard QEMU type to the list of pre-known types. > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gr...@kaod.org> > --- > > checkpatch doesn't have an official maintainer, Cc'ing David in case he > agrees to carry this patch through his ppc tree, along with: > > https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-09/msg03686.html > > scripts/checkpatch.pl | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl > index fa478074b88d..def5bc1cc0e1 100755 > --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl > +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl > @@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ our @typeList = ( > qr{${Ident}_handler}, > qr{${Ident}_handler_fn}, > qr{target_(?:u)?long}, > + qr{hwaddr}, > ); > > # This can be modified by sub possible. Since it can be empty, be careful >
Queued, thanks. Paolo
