Re: [PATCH][RFC] Removing wrong judgement of checkpatch.pl for return as function

[Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>]

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 10:49:32AM +0900, Hitoshi Mitake wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I found a strange behaviour of checkpatch.pl.
> 
> The C statement:
> 	return (type)value;
> is regarded as return like a function form by checkpatch.pl.
> So checkpatch.pl causes "Return is not a function." error
> when processing statements like this.
> 
> I think statements like above are innocence. These are only doing type cast.
> This patch removes the behaviour of checkpatch.pl.
> 
> But I don't have confidence about coding style of Linux kernel.
> Is my thought correct? Or the behaviour of current checkpatch.pl is correct?
> Request for comment.

Do you have a patch example which triggers this?  If I test the current
version with this specific fragment I do not get a report.  This one
collapses to '1value' which means it shouldn't trigger the report.

If you do have a specific patch which triggered this could you email it
over, also could you confirm the version of checkpatch which shows this
with checkpatch -v.

Thanks.

-apw