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
next prev parent 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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