From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Miles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com>, Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, wsd_upstream@mediatek.com,
linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: support function pointers for unnamed function definition arguments
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 22:33:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1505367221.8969.25.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1505358082-12997-1-git-send-email-miles.chen@mediatek.com>
On Thu, 2017-09-14 at 11:01 +0800, Miles Chen wrote:
> Current unnamed function definition argument does not include function
> pointer cases and it reports warnings like:
>
> WARNING: function definition argument 'void' should also have an identifier name
>
> Support function pointers for unnamed function arguments.
>
> Signed-off-by: Miles Chen <miles.chen@mediatek.com>
> ---
> scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index dd2c262..dc6da15 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -5957,7 +5957,7 @@ sub process {
>
> # check for function declarations that have arguments without identifier names
> if (defined $stat &&
> - $stat =~ /^.\s*(?:extern\s+)?$Type\s*$Ident\s*\(\s*([^{]+)\s*\)\s*;/s &&
> + $stat =~ /^.\s*(?:extern\s+)?$Type\s*\(?\s*\*?\s*$Ident\s*\)\s*\(\s*([^{]+)\s*\)\s*;/s &&
Better would be to specifically support function pointers like:
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 05dd72693621..7289c1eb0b19 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -5957,7 +5957,7 @@ sub process {
# check for function declarations that have arguments without identifier names
if (defined $stat &&
- $stat =~ /^.\s*(?:extern\s+)?$Type\s*$Ident\s*\(\s*([^{]+)\s*\)\s*;/s &&
+ $stat =~ /^.\s*(?:extern\s+)?$Type\s*(?:$Ident|\(\s*\*\s*$Ident\s*\))\s*\(\s*([^{]+)\s*\)\s*;/s &&
$1 ne "void") {
my $args = trim($1);
while ($args =~ m/\s*($Type\s*(?:$Ident|\(\s*\*\s*$Ident?\s*\)\s*$balanced_parens)?)/g) {
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-14 5:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-14 3:01 [PATCH] checkpatch: support function pointers for unnamed function definition arguments Miles Chen
2017-09-14 5:33 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2017-09-14 10:09 ` Miles Chen
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