Re: [PATCH 08/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: remove unnecessary space after cast

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Mon, 2016-01-04 at 19:07 -0300, Geyslan G. Bem wrote:
> 2016-01-04 18:52 GMT-03:00 Sergei Shtylyov :
> > > > > > This patch fixes coding style issues reported by checkpatch concerning
> > > > > > to unnecessary space after a cast.
> > > > > This is a case where checkpatch is wrong, IMO.  Casts should always be
> > > > > followed by a space.  I will not accept this patch.

Your choice, but most kernel code disagrees with you.

measuring only kernel casts to a pointer, (because there are
too many false positives otherwise) casts without a space
are preferred ~3:1 over casts followed by a space.

(without space)
$ grep -rP --include=*.[ch] -oh "\(\s*(\w{3,}\s+){0,2}\w{3,}\s*\*+\s*\)\w+" * | \
  sort|cut -f1 -d")"| sed 's/$/)/' | wc -l
36612

(with space)
$ grep -rP --include=*.[ch] -oh "\(\s*(\w{3,}\s+){0,2}\w{3,}\s*\*+\s*\)[ \t]\w+" * | \
  sort|cut -f1 -d")"| sed 's/$/)/' | wc -l
13233