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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: apw@canonical.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: False positive in checkpatch
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 07:03:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130924140305.GZ9093@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1379996467.3575.67.camel@joe-AO722>

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 09:21:07PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 15:59 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > Hello!
> > 
> > The checkpatch.pl script complains as follows:
> > 
> > ERROR: need consistent spacing around '*' (ctx:WxB)
> > #57: FILE: include/linux/rcupdate.h:564:
> > +		ACCESS_ONCE(p) = (typeof(*(v)) __force space *)(v); \
> > 
> > Of course, the two uses of '*' are doing different things, so it should
> > be OK for the spacing to be different.
> > 
> > Could you please fix this?
> > 
> > 							Thanx, Paul
> > 
> 
> Hi Paul.
> 
> Try this patch: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/2/428
> 
> Andy?  Can you verify this suggested patch please?

That does it, thank you!  And it does look like this patch was directed
precisely at this patch.  ;-)

							Thanx, Paul


  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-24 14:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-23 22:59 False positive in checkpatch Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-24  4:21 ` Joe Perches
2013-09-24 14:03   ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2013-09-24 15:13     ` Andy Whitcroft
2013-09-24 15:45       ` Paul E. McKenney
2013-09-24 14:24   ` Andy Whitcroft

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