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From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
To: "Németh Márton" <nm127@freemail.hu>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: confusing checkpatch.pl messages
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 00:23:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090108002317.GA13284@shadowen.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4963C5C0.2080304@freemail.hu>

On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 09:57:36PM +0100, Németh Márton wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I run the checkpatch.pl against the attache file and it reported some
> confusing warning and error messages. The attached file has an obsoleted
> syntax:
[...]
> >     struct point p = { y: yvalue, x: xvalue };
> 
> However, the checkpatch.pl speaks about labels, which are incorrect, I think:

Yeah that is the wrong error for sure.  Will see if I can stop it doing
that and emit something more sensible.

-apw

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-01-08  0:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-06 20:57 confusing checkpatch.pl messages Németh Márton
2009-01-07  0:41 ` Robert Hancock
2009-01-08  0:23 ` Andy Whitcroft [this message]

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