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Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:53:03 +0000
From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
To: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: checkpatch false positive
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On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:00:29AM +0000, Richard Kennedy wrote:
> I'm getting this error from checkpatch which is a false positive AFAICT.
> I don't see any other way to code this macro so maybe this rule
> shouldn't apply?.
> 
> 	ERROR: space prohibited before open square bracket '['
> 	#24: FILE: drivers/staging/wlan-ng/p80211wext.c:1685:
> 	+#define IW_IOCTL(x) [(x)-SIOCSIWCOMMIT]

Yes that is definatly false, feed free to ignore it.  I'll have a look
at fixing it.

-apw