Re: bug in checkpatch (on pointers to typedefs?)

[Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>]

On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 03:33:02PM +0100, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Checkpatch in current mainline outputs following errors:
> 
> $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -q --file ./fs/udf/misc.c
> ERROR: need consistent spacing around '*' (ctx:WxV)
> #205: FILE: fs/udf/misc.c:205:
> +       tag *tag_p;
>             ^
> 
> $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -q --file ./fs/udf/unicode.c
> ERROR: need consistent spacing around '*' (ctx:WxV)
> #48: FILE: fs/udf/unicode.c:48:
> +int udf_build_ustr(struct ustr *dest, dstring *ptr, int size)
>                                                ^
> (...)
> 
> I think the code is ok.

Yep the code is clearly correct.  Can I have the whole patch fragment
you got these against so I can figure out why we are unable to detect
these two as types, I would expect us to have done so.  Also what
version of checkpatch is this?  There is a version string at the top.

-apw